# amate
## English
### Etymology 1

From Spanish (papel) amate (“amate paper”), from Classical Nahuatl āmatl (“paper”).

#### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /əˈmɑːteɪ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /əˈmɑteɪ/
** Audio (US):(file)

#### Noun

amate (plural amates)
* Paper produced from the bark of adult Ficus trees.
* An art form based on Mexican bark painting from the Otomi culture.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Old French amater, amatir.

#### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) IPA: /əˈmeɪt/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
** Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪt

#### Verb

amate (third-person singular simple present amates, present participle amating, simple past and past participle amated)
* (obsolete) To dishearten, dismay.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:Shall I accuse the hidden cruell fate, / And mightie causes wrought in heauen aboue, / Or the blind God, that doth me thus amate, / For hoped loue to winne me certaine hate?
** 1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), Jerusalem Delivered, Tasso, XI, xii:
    Upon the walls the pagans old and young / Stood hush'd and still, amated and amazed.
** 1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC:The Silures, to amate the new general, rumoured the overthrow greater than was true.
** 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.230:
    For the last […], he will be much amazed, he will be much amated.
** c. 1815, John Keats, To Chatterton:Thou didst die / A half-blown flow'ret which cold blasts amate.

### Etymology 3

From a- +‎ mate.

#### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) IPA: /əˈmeɪt/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
** Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪt

#### Verb

amate (third-person singular simple present amates, present participle amating, simple past and past participle amated)
* (obsolete) To be a mate to; to match.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:More lucklesse disadventures did amate

### Anagrams

* A team, A-team

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /amˈate/
* Audio:(file)

### Adverb

amate
* present adverbial passive participle of ami

## Interlingua
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈma.te/

### Participle

amate
* past participle of amar

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈma.te/
* Rhymes: -ate
* Hyphenation: a‧mà‧te

### Etymology 1
#### Adjective

amate
* feminine plural of amato

#### Participle

amate f pl
* feminine plural of amato

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

amate f
* plural of amata

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

amate
* inflection of amare:
** second-person plural present indicative
** second-person plural imperative

### Anagrams

* a tema

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /aˈmaː.te/, [äˈmäːt̪ɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /aˈma.te/, [äˈmäːt̪e]

### Verb

amāte
* second-person plural present active imperative of amō

### Participle

amāte
* vocative masculine singular of amātus

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀅𑀫𑀢𑁂 (Brahmi script)
* अमते (Devanagari script)
* অমতে (Bengali script)
* අමතෙ (Sinhalese script)
* အမတေ or ဢမတေ (Burmese script)
* อมเต or อะมะเต (Thai script)
* ᩋᨾᨲᩮ (Tai Tham script)
* ອມເຕ or ອະມະເຕ (Lao script)
* អមតេ (Khmer script)
* 𑄃𑄟𑄖𑄬 (Chakma script)

### Adjective

amate
* inflection of amata (“everlasting”):
** locative singular masculine/neuter
** accusative plural masculine
** vocative singular feminine

### Noun

amate
* locative singular of amata (“immortality”)

## Rwanda-Rundi
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *màtáì. Doublet of amata.

### Noun

amaté class 6
* (Kirundi) saliva
    Synonym: (Rwanda) amacandwe

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈmate/ [aˈma.t̪e]
* Rhymes: -ate
* Syllabification: a‧ma‧te

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from a Nahuan language; cf. Classical Nahuatl āmatl.

#### Noun

amate m (plural amates)
* fig tree (Ficus sp.)
** (Guerrero) Ficus obtusifolia
    Synonym: amate blanco
** (Oaxaca) petiolate fig (Ficus petiolaris)
    Synonym: amate amarillo
** (Chiapas, Tabasco) Ficus segoviae
** (Oaxaca) Florida strangler fig (Ficus aurea)
    Synonym: amate prieto
* creeping fig (Ficus pumila)
* amate paper
    Synonym: papel amate
* amate (art form)

##### Derived terms

* amate amarillo
* amate blanco
* amate prieto
* amatillo
* amatito

##### Descendants

* → English: amate

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

amate
* second-person singular voseo imperative of amar combined with te
* inflection of amatar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### References

* Catalogo alfabético de nombres vulgares y científicos de plantas que existen en México, México: Imprenta de la Dirección de Estudios Biológicos, 1923, page 42
* Schoenhals, Louise C. (1988) A Spanish - English Glossary of Mexican Flora and Fauna‎, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 16

### Further reading

* “amate”, 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