amate

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈmɑːteɪ/

Noun

amate (plural amates)

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^(key): /əˈmeɪt/

Verb

amate (third-person singular simple present amates, present participle amating, simple past and past participle amated)

1. (obsolete) To dishearten, dismay.
   • John Milton (1608-1674)

     The Silures, to amate the new general, rumoured the overthrow greater than was true.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book I, canto 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, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: […] Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
     , 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.

Verb

amate (third-person singular simple present amates, present participle amating, simple past and past participle amated)

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

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Synonyms

• (amate paper): papel amate

Descendants

• English: amate