nates

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin natēs, plural of natis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈneɪtiːz/
• Rhymes: -eɪtiz

Noun

1. (anatomy, medicine) The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.
2. The buttocks.
   • 1963, Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr Enderby

     Enderby watched her warily as she lay prone, having kicked the clothes off the bed, her nates silvered by the Roman moonlight to the likeness of a meringue.

   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 3:

     He sat cross-legged on a damask pillow and scrutinized the pale puckered nates with the air of an epicure examining a fly in his vichyssoise.

3. (zoology) The umbones of a bivalve shell.

Anagrams

• Antes, Teans, Tenas, antes, etnas, neats, senat, stane, stean

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈna.teːs/, [ˈnät̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈna.tes/, [ˈnäːt̪es]

Etymology 1

From natis (“rump, buttocks”).

Noun

(deprecated template usage) natēs

1. nominative plural of natis
2. accusative plural of natis
3. vocative plural of natis

Etymology 2

Inflected form of natō (“swim, float”).

Verb

(deprecated template usage) natēs

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of natō

References

• “nates”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nates”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nates in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• nates in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.