cate

Aphetized from acate, from Old Northern French acat (“purchase”).

• IPA^(key): /keɪt/
• Homophone: Kate
• Rhymes: -eɪt

cate (plural cates)

1. (in the plural) A delicacy or item of food.
   • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :

     Kate of Kate-hall, my super-daintie Kate, / For dainties are all Kates, and therefore Kate / Take this of me, Kate of my consolation […]

   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 101:

     Have we not heard of divers most fertile regions, plenteously yeelding al maner of necessary victuals, where neverthelesse the most ordinary cates and daintiest dishes, were but bread, water-cresses, and water?

   • 1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, , published 1820, →OCLC, stanza XX, page 93, lines 172–173:

     All cates and dainties shall be stored there / Quickly on this feast-night: [...]

   • 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:

     He did not at first produce the cates and vintages they expected; they looked, most of them, puzzled at the lack of materials of revelry.

• TeCA, tace, acet-, CETA

Cognate with Saho xate.

• IPA^(key): /ħaˈte/
• Hyphenation: ca‧te

caté (passive cattiimé)

1. (transitive) to help

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “cate”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

cate

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of catar

cate

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

• chauteh (Khimi Chin)

• IPA^(key): /sa˥.te˧/

cate

1. (transitive) to eat

• K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin‎, Payap University, page 86

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈka.te/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.te/,

cate

1. vocative masculine singular of catus

• “cate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

cate

1. (hapax) Alternative form of gate (“gate”)

• “grete-cate”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• Rhymes: -ati

• Hyphenation: ca‧te

cate

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkate/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Syllabification: ca‧te

Borrowed from Caló caté (“stick”), from Sanskrit काष्ठ (kāṣṭha, “wood”).

cate m (plural cates)

1. smack; slap
2. fail (in an exam)

cate

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

• “cate”, 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