# pate
## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English pate, of uncertain origin. Perhaps a shortened form of Old French patene or Medieval Latin patena, both from Latin patina (“pan, dish”). Alternatively, perhaps akin to Old Frisian pote (“skull”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /peɪt/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪt

#### Noun

pate (plural pates)
* (somewhat archaic) The head, particularly the top or crown.
    He had a shiny, bald pate.
** 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Psalm vij:[16], folio xiij, recto, column 2:For his vnhappynes ſhall come vpon his owne heade, ⁊ his wickednes ſhall fall vpon his owne pate.
** 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 167:The whole benighted, blooming crew, The Puddin'-thieves, the Usher too, Are being beaten black and blue With bottles on the pate.
* (archaic) Wit, cleverness, cognitive abilities.
** c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC,:I am reſolued, tis but a thee yeeres faſt: The minde ſhall banquet, though the body pine, Fat paunches haue leane pates: and daynty bits Make rich the ribbes, but banerout quite the wits.
** 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 16, column 1:I thank thee for that ieſt; heer’s a garment for’t: Wit ſhall not goe vn-rewarded while I am King of this Country: Steale by line and leuell, is an excellent paſſe of pate: there’s another garment for’t.

##### Derived terms

* addle pate
* pated
* rattlepate

##### See also

* capital

### Etymology 2

Attested since circa 1700, from French pâté, from Old French paste, pastée. Doublet of pâté and patty.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpæt.eɪ/, /pæˈteɪ/
* Rhymes: -æteɪ, -eɪ

#### Noun

pate (plural pates)
* Alternative spelling of pâté (finely-ground paste of meat, fish, etc.)
* The interior body, or non-rind portion of cheese, described by its texture, density, and color.

##### Related terms

* pasta
* paste
* patty

### Anagrams

* PETA, Paet, Peat, Peta, epta-, peat, peta-, tape, tepa

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpatɛ]

### Noun

pate
* vocative singular of pat

## Danish
### Alternative forms

* paté

### Etymology

From French pâté.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pate/, [pʰaˈtˢe]
* Rhymes: -e

### Noun

pate c (singular definite pateen, plural indefinite pateer)
* pâté

#### Inflection
## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin pater, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpa.te/
* Rhymes: -ate
* Hyphenation: pà‧te

### Noun

pate m (plural pati)
* (obsolete) father
    Synonym: padre

### Further reading

* pate in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* epta-

## Japanese
### Romanization

pate
* Rōmaji transcription of パテ

## Latin
### Verb

patē
* second-person singular present active imperative of pateō

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

pate m (definite singular pateen, indefinite plural pateer, definite plural pateene)
* alternative spelling of paté

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

pate m (definite singular pateen, indefinite plural patear, definite plural pateane)
* alternative spelling of paté

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀧𑀢𑁂 (Brahmi script)
* पते (Devanagari script)
* পতে (Bengali script)
* පතෙ (Sinhalese script)
* ပတေ (Burmese script)
* ปเต or ปะเต (Thai script)
* ᨷᨲᩮ (Tai Tham script)
* ປເຕ or ປະເຕ (Lao script)
* បតេ (Khmer script)
* 𑄛𑄖𑄬 (Chakma script)

### Verb

pate
* singular optative active of patati (“to fall”)

## Romanian
### Noun

pate n (plural pateuri)
* Alternative form of pateu

#### Declension
## Walloon
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pat/

### Noun

pate f (plural pates)
* paw, leg