palate

English

Etymology

From Middle English palate, from Old French palat, from Latin palātum (“roof of the mouth, palate”), perhaps of Etruscan origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpælɪt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈpælɪt/, /ˈpælət/
• IPA^(key): /ˈpælət/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ælɪt
• Homophones: palette, pallet, pallette (possibly depending on dialect or accent)

Noun

palate (plural palates)

1. (anatomy) The roof of the mouth; the uraniscus.
2. The sense of taste.
3. (figuratively) relish; taste; liking (from the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste)
   • (Can we date this quote by Alexander Pope and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Hard task! to hit the palate of such guests.

4. (figuratively) Mental relish; intellectual taste.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of T. Baker to this entry?)

5. (botany) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• hard palate
• palatable
• palatal

• palatally
• soft palate

Translations

roof of the mouth

• Albanian: qiellzë (sq) f
• Arabic: حَنَك m (ḥanak)

  Egyptian Arabic: سقف حلق m (saʔf ḥalʔ), حنك m (ḥának)

• Armenian: քիմք (hy) (kʻimkʻ)
• Basque: ahosabai
• Belarusian: паднябе́нне n (padnjabjénnje), нёба n (njóba)
• Brunei Malay: langit-langit
• Bulgarian: небце n (nebce)
• Catalan: paladar (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 上顎／上颚 (zh) (shàng'è), 上颚 (zh) (shàng'è), 口蓋／口盖 (zh) (kǒugài), 口盖 (zh) (kǒugài), 齶／腭 (zh) (è), 腭 (zh) (è)

• Crimean Tatar: tañlay
• Czech: patro (cs) n
• Dutch: gehemelte (nl) n, verhemelte (nl) n
• Esperanto: palato (eo)
• Finnish: suulaki (fi), kitalaki (fi)
• French: palais (fr) m
• Galician: teito da boca m, ceo da boca m, padal m
• Georgian: სასა (sasa)
• German: Gaumen (de) m
• Greek: ουρανίσκος (el) m (ouranískos)

  Ancient: οὐρανίσκος m (ouranískos), ὑπερῴα f (huperṓia)

• Hebrew: חֵךְ (he) m (khékh)
• Hungarian: szájpadlás (hu)
• Italian: palato (it) m
• Japanese: 口蓋 (こうがい, kōgai), 上顎 (じょうがく, jōgaku)
• Khmer: ពិតានមាត់ (pidaan moat)
• Korean: 입천장 (ko) (ipcheonjang), 구개 (ko) (gugae)
• Latin: palatum n
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• Lithuanian: gomurys m
• Luxembourgish: Gumm m
• Macedonian: не́пце n (népce)
• Malay: lelangit
• Maori: pikiarero
• Navajo: azahatʼágí
• Norman: palais m
• Old English: gōma m
• Persian: کام (fa) (kâm)
• Polish: podniebienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: palato (pt) m
• Romanian: palat (ro) n
• Russian: нёбо (ru) n (njóbo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: непце n

  Roman: nepce (sh) n

• Slovak: podnebie n
• Slovene: nebó (sl) n
• Southern Altai: таҥдай (tañday)
• Spanish: paladar (es) m
• Swahili: kaakaa (sw)
• Swedish: gom (sv) c
• Tagalog: ngalangala, asngal
• Turkish: damak (tr)
• Ukrainian: піднебі́ння n (pidnebínnja), не́бо (uk) n (nébo)
• Vietnamese: vòm miệng
• Volapük: palat (vo)

sense of taste

• Finnish: makuaisti (fi)
• Portuguese: paladar (pt)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: вкус (ru) m (vkus)
• Spanish: paladar (es) m

figuratively: relish; taste; liking

• Finnish: maku (fi)
• Hungarian: gusztus (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: вкус (ru) m (vkus), смак (ru) m (smak)

figuratively: mental relish; intellectual taste

• Finnish: maku (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: вкус (ru) m (vkus)

botany: projection in the throat of some flowers

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Verb

1. (transitive, nonstandard) To relish; to find palatable.

   Synonym: stomach

   • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Not palating the taste of her dishonour

   • Wired [1]

     "If it’s way out there, it’s hard to palate," said Sreenivasan.

Anagrams

• Platea, paleta, patela, petala

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Italian

Noun

palate f

1. plural of palata

Verb

palate

1. inflection of palare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative
2. feminine plural of palato

Anagrams

• pelata
• platea

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) pālāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of pālō

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• palet, palat, palette, palete

Etymology

From Old French palat, from Latin palātum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpalat/, /ˈpalət/

Noun

palate

1. The palate; the top of the mouth (including the uvula).
2. One's sense of taste (the palate was believed to be the source of this).

Descendants

• English: palate

References

• “palat(e (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-20.

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Romanian

Noun

palate n pl

1. plural of palat