# cate
## English
### Etymology

Aphetized from acate, from Old Northern French acat (“purchase”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /keɪt/
* Homophone: Kate
* Rhymes: -eɪt

### Noun

cate (plural cates)
* (in the plural) A delicacy or item of food.
** c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:Kate of Kate-hall, my super-daintie Kate, / For dainties are all Kates, and therefore Kate / Take this of me, Kate of my consolation […]
** 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 101:
    Have we not heard of divers most fertile regions, plenteously yeelding al maner of necessary victuals, where neverthelesse the most ordinary cates [translating méz] and daintiest dishes, were but bread, water-cresses, and water?
** 1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza XX, page 93, lines 172–173:All cates and dainties shall be stored there / Quickly on this feast-night: [...]
** 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:He did not at first produce the cates and vintages they expected; they looked, most of them, puzzled at the lack of materials of revelry.

#### Related terms

* cater

### Anagrams

* TeCA, tace, acet-, CETA

## Afar
### Etymology

Cognate with Saho xate.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ħaˈte/ [ħʌˈtɛ]
* Hyphenation: ca‧te

### Verb

caté (passive cattiimé)
* (transitive) to help

#### Derived terms

* cató

### References

* E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “cate”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

## Asturian
### Verb

cate
* first/third-person singular present subjunctive of catar

## Galician
### Verb

cate
* inflection of catar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Khumi Chin
### Alternative forms

* chauteh (Khimi Chin)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sa˥.te˧/

### Verb

cate
* (transitive) to eat

### References

* K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin‎, Payap University, page 86

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈka.te/, [ˈkät̪ɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈka.te/, [ˈkäːt̪e]

### Adjective

cate
* vocative masculine singular of catus

### References

* “cate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “cate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* cate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Middle English
### Noun

cate
* (hapax) Alternative form of gate (“gate”)

#### References

* “grete-cate”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -ati
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈka.t͡ʃi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈka.t͡ʃi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈka.te/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈka.tɨ/
* Hyphenation: ca‧te

### Verb

cate
* inflection of catar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkate/ [ˈka.t̪e]
* Rhymes: -ate
* Syllabification: ca‧te

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Caló caté (“stick”), from Sanskrit काष्ठ (kāṣṭha, “wood”).

#### Noun

cate m (plural cates)
* smack; slap
* fail (in an exam)

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

cate
* inflection of catar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “cate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10