# pete
## English
### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

pete (plural petes)
* (slang) Alternative form of peter (“a safe”)
** 1929, Outlook and Independent, volume 152, page 640:He was on his way to Tyrone, where he intended to blow a “pete” in a general merchandise store […]
** 1933, Goat Laven, Rough Stuff: The Life Story of a Gangster, page 34:He told us that at one time he could blow a pete at one shot and never fail.

### Anagrams

* tepe, Peet, peet, Tepe, teep

## Galician
### Verb

pete
* inflection of petar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Haitian Creole
### Etymology

From French péter.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pete/

### Verb

pete
* (transitive) to break
* (transitive) to flatter, to fool
* (intransitive) to burst, explode, break
* (intransitive) to start (doing something)
* (intransitive) to fart
    Synonym: pèpèt

### References

* Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)

## Hungarian
### Etymology

First attested in 1778. Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from the proper noun Pete, the diminutive form of the male given name Péter.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpɛtɛ]
* Hyphenation: pe‧te
* Rhymes: -tɛ

### Noun

pete (plural peték)
* (cytology) ovum

#### Derived terms

* petéjű
* petés
* petézik
* peteérés
* petefészek

### References

* ↑ pete in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

### Further reading

* pete in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Latin
### Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpe.te/, [ˈpɛt̪ɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpe.te/, [ˈpɛːt̪e]

### Verb

pete
* second-person singular present active imperative of petō

## Middle English
### Adjective

pete
* Alternative form of pety

## Murui Huitoto
### Etymology

Probably borrowed from Spanish patear.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpɛtɛ]
* Hyphenation: pe‧te

### Verb

pete
* (transitive) to kick

#### Conjugation
### References

* Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎, Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 77

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀧𑁂𑀢𑁂 (Brahmi script)
* पेते (Devanagari script)
* পেতে (Bengali script)
* පෙතෙ (Sinhalese script)
* ပေတေ (Burmese script)
* เปเต (Thai script)
* ᨷᩮᨲᩮ or ᨸᩮᨲᩮ (Tai Tham script)
* ເປເຕ (Lao script)
* បេតេ (Khmer script)
* 𑄛𑄬𑄖𑄬 (Chakma script)

### Noun

pete
* inflection of peta (“ghost”):
** locative singular
** accusative plural

## Romanian
### Noun

pete f
* inflection of pată:
** indefinite genitive/dative singular
** indefinite nominative/accusative/genitive/dative plural

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

pete (Cyrillic spelling пете)
* inflection of peta:
** genitive singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative plural

### Verb

pete (Cyrillic spelling пете)
* (Kajkavian) second-person plural future of iti

## Slovene
### Noun

pete
* inflection of peta:
** genitive singular
** nominative/accusative plural

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpete/ [ˈpe.t̪e]
* Rhymes: -ete
* Syllabification: pe‧te

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Lunfardo chupete (“pacifier”).

#### Noun

pete m (plural petes)
* (Latin America, slang) blowjob
    Synonym: mamada

### Etymology 2

Clipping of chupete (“pacifier”).

#### Noun

pete m (plural petes)
* (Latin America, childish) binky, pacifier

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

pete m (plural petes)
* (Latin America, slang) noob, unskilled player

### Etymology 4
#### Verb

pete
* inflection of petar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Swahili
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Bantu [Term?].

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

pete class IX (plural pete class X)
* ring

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpe.te]

### Noun

pete
* eye mucus, sleep, gound, rheum

### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

## Yoruba
### Etymology

From pa (“to tell”) +‎ ète (“strategy”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /k͡pè.tē/

### Verb

pète
* to scheme, to plot
* to intend

#### Derived terms

* ìpète (“shcemes”)