ate

• et (informal pronunciation spelling)

• (US) IPA^(key): /eɪt/

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• (UK, Ireland) IPA^(key): /eɪt/, /ɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt, -eɪt
• Homophones: ait, eight, eyot

ate

1. simple past tense of eat
2. (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of eat
   • 1805, Maximilien de Béthune duc de Sully, Memoirs of Maximillian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister of Henry the Great […] ‎, volume IV, page 171:

     I have a very good appetite, have ate some excellent melons, and they have served me up some quails, the fattest and tenderest I have ever ate.

   • 1929, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Nicky-Nan, Reservist‎, page 27:

     “Haven't ate all the eggs, I hope? For I be hungry as a hunter […]

   • 2013 January 11 [1997], David Bell; Gill Valentine, Consuming Geographies: We Are Where We Eat‎, Routledge, →ISBN, page 140:

     So I'd have ate when me Dad had ate, sort of thing, I think, you know when he come home from work, I'd have waited for him, I wouldn't have said I wanted mine at four o'clock […]

From Tagalog ate, from Hokkien 阿姊 (a-chí, “eldest sister”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔɐ.te/

ate (plural ates)

1. (Philippines) An elder sister
2. (Philippines) A respectful title or form of address for an older woman.

• AET, ETA, TEA, Tea, a.e.t., aet, eat, eta, tea, æt.

ate

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of atar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of atar

Unknown.

• IPA^(key): /ate/, [a.t̪e̞]

ate inan

1. door, entrance
2. defile, gorge (deep, narrow passage)
3. (sports) goal (structure)
4. exterior, outside part

• "ate" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
• “ate” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

• IPA^(key): /ɑt̪e/

ate

1. to know, be knowledgable

• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDe’u" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːtə/

ate

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of eten

From Proto-Central-Pacific *qate, from Proto-Oceanic *qate, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Austronesian *qaCay.

ate

1. Obsolete spelling of yate

ate

1. Rōmaji transcription of あて

From Proto-Philippine [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Austronesian *qaCay.

até

1. (anatomy) liver

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Austronesian *qaCay.

ate

1. (anatomy) liver
2. (figurative) heart

• ole ate (“friend”)

• Rina, A. Dj.; Kabba, John Lado B. (2011), “ate”, in Kamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page 6
• Laboya in Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

ate

1. (anatomy) liver

• atia

Etymology unclear. Compare Latvian atā.[1] The word may not be very old, and may ultimately derive from French adieu, via a Slavic intermediary.[2]

ate

1. (informal) goodbye, ta-ta

   Synonyms: iki, viso gero

The interjection was originally restricted to childish language, but it is now used more generally in colloquial speech.[1] The VLKK recommends against using it in official communication.[2]

ate

1. he, him (personal pronoun)
2. she, her (personal pronoun)
3. it (personal pronoun)

From Proto-Polynesian *qate, from Proto-Oceanic *qate, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Austronesian *qaCay.

ate

1. (anatomy) liver (organ of the body)

ate

1. Alternative form of ote

• IPA^(key): /ʔate/

ate

1. liver

• The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar (2013, →ISBN, page 684

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Austronesian *qaCay.

ate (mutated form gate)

1. liver

• Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 21.

ate (changed conjunct form eteg, reduplicated form ayate, augmented form atemagad)

1. be (in a certain place)

   Gii-kwanabise iwe biskitenaagan imaa adoopowinaakong gaa-ateg.

   The birch bark tray that was sitting on the table tipped over.

• abi
• ayaa
• biinde
• dagon

• The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/ate-vii

ate

1. inflection of atar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Cognate with Ternate hate.

• IPA^(key): /a.te/

ate

1. tree

• Leontine Visser, Clemens Voorhoeve (1987) Sahu-Indonesian-English Dictionary, Brill

ate (plural ates)

1. Alternative form of ait (“oat”)

• “ate, n.²” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

• IPA^(key): /ˈate/ [ˈa.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ate
• Syllabification: a‧te

Of Nahuatl origin.

ate m (plural ates)

1. a kind of Mexican jelly candy made by cooking fruit pulp, usually from guava, quince, peach or prickly pear

   Synonym: dulce

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ate

1. inflection of atar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “ate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from Hokkien 阿姊 (a-chí, “elder sister”). Doublet of atsi. Compare Remontado Agta itti.

• ati

• Hyphenation: a‧te
• IPA^(key): /ˈʔate/, [ˈʔa.te]
• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈte/, [ʔɐˈte] (uncommon)

ate (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜆᜒ)

1. elder sister; big sister

   Nagluto sina ate at nanay ng pananghalian namin. ― Our big sister and mother cooked our lunch.

2. (informal) term of address for a female senior (in school, work, etc.)

   Tinanong ko si ate sa hayskul, "Ate, ano po ang mga gawain niyo sa hayskul". ― I asked my senior from high school, "Miss, what activities do you do in high school?"

3. (informal) term of address for any young female: miss; sis

   Synonym: (slightly older) manang

   Bumili ako ng pagkain kay ate. ― I bought food from the miss.

• ateng

• kuya

• ateng

• Hyphenation: a‧te
• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈteʔ/, [ʔɐˈteʔ]

atê (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜆᜒ)

1. (childish) dirt

   Synonyms: atse, tsetse, aa

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.te]

ate

1. (intransitive) to connect

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

• at
• attai
• āte

Probably from Proto-Tocharian *āté, from Proto-Indo-European *éti.

ate

1. away

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013), “ate”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 10

• IPA^(key): /aˈtɛ/

ate

1. ow, ouch (expressing pain in response to heat)

   Ate! Inyatapai itsei! ― Ow! [The] fire is hot! [I got singed or burned].

• E. Ireland field notes. Need to be checked by native speaker.