nates

English

Etymology

From Latin natēs, plural of natis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈneɪtiːz/
• Rhymes: -eɪtiz

Noun

nates pl (plural only)

1. (anatomy, medicine) The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.
2. The buttocks.
   • 1963, Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr Enderby:

     Enderby watched her warily as she lay prone, having kicked the clothes off the bed, her nates silvered by the Roman moonlight to the likeness of a meringue.

   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 3:

     He sat cross-legged on a damask pillow and scrutinized the pale puckered nates with the air of an epicure examining a fly in his vichyssoise.

3. (zoology) The umbones of a bivalve shell.

Anagrams

• Antes, Teans, Tenas, antes, etnas, neats, netas, senat, stane, stean

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Noun

nates

1. plural of nata

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈna.teːs/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈna.tes/,

Etymology 1

From natis (“rump, buttocks”).

Noun

natēs

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of natis

Etymology 2

Inflected form of natō (“swim, float”).

Verb

natēs

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of natō

References

• “nates”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nates”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nates in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• nates in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.