Amate

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /əˈmɑːteɪ/

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

Full definition of amate

Noun

1. Paper produced from the bark of adult Ficus trees.
2. An art form based on Mexican bark painting from the Otomi culture.

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /əˈmeɪt/

From Old French amater, amatir.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To dishearten, dismay.
• MiltonThe Silures, to amate the new general, rumoured the overthrow greater than was true.
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i: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, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, xii:Upon the walls the pagans old and young
• Stood hush'd and still, amated and amazed.
• 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 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.

- + mate.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To be a mate to; to match.

Anagrams

• A team, A-team