vate

IPA^(key): /vat/

vate (f)

1. Alternative form of vaiche

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From Latin vātēs (“prophet, poet”). Compare Italian vate, Spanish vate, Portuguese vate, Catalan vate, English vates. Doublet of ovate and vaticiner.

• IPA^(key): /vat/

vate m (plural vates)

1. (history) vates, especially a Gaulish priest

   Synonym: ovate

• avet, EVAT, Tave, Teva, Téva

From Latin vātēs (“prophet, poet”). Compare English vates.

• IPA^(key): /ˈva.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: và‧te

vate m (plural vati)

1. (literary) prophet, fortune-teller

   Synonyms: divinatore, indovino, profeta

2. (figurative) an inspired or prophetic poet or other writer; vates
   • 2003, Antonio Tabucchi, chapter XIII, in Sostiene Pereira : una testimonianza [Pereira Declares], Rome: La biblioteca di Repubblica, published 1994, →ISBN, page 82:

     Fu un grande poeta Gabriele D'Annunzio, il cui vero nome per inciso era Rapagnetta? […] Innazitutto fu un vate. Amò il lusso, la mondanità, la magniloquenza, l'azione.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• vate in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

vāte

1. ablative singular of vātēs

vate f (5th declension)

1. cotton wool

vate

1. inflection of vata (“religious duty”):
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural

From Latin vātēs.

• Hyphenation: va‧te

vate m or f by sense (plural vates)

1. vates (divinely inspired poet)

vate m or f by sense (plural vates)

1. prophetic poet, vates

   Synonym: poeta

• “vate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

From Proto-Finnic *vaat'ëk.

vate

1. broadcloth

vate

1. dative singular of vat