abater

From Middle English abatere. Equivalent to abate +‎ -er.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈbeɪ.tɚ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

abater (plural abaters)

1. One who, or that which, abates. [From 16^th century.]
   • 1583, Pedro de la Sierra, translated by Robert Parry, The Second Part of the Myrror of Knighthood‎^[1], London: Thomas Este, Book 1, Part 2, Chapter 21:

     This is the great Prince of Grecia, called the Knight of the Sunne, restorer of the auncient kingdome of Tinacria, & the abater and breaker of the strength of the most strongest Giants in all the world.

   • 1732, John Arbuthnot, Practical Rules of Diet in the Various Constitutions and Diseases of Human Bodies‎^[2], London: J. Tonson, Chapter 1, section 26, p. 281:

     Anodyne, or Abaters of Pain of the Alimentary Kind. Such things as relax the Tension of the affected nervous Fibres […]

   • 1908, John H. Wallace, Preservation of the Game, Fish and Forests of Alabama, address given before the Alabama Press Association, 23 July, 1908, State Printers and Binders, p. 6,^[3]

     As a fever germ abater in a malarial district, a flock of bull-bats is worth a grove of quinine trees.

   • 1972, David I. Cook, David F. Van Haverbeke, “Trees and shrubs can curb noise, but with quite a few loud ‘ifs’”, in The Yearbook of Agriculture, 972‎^[4], Washington, D.C.: US Department of Agriculture, page 28:

     […] research is proving the effectiveness of trees and shrubs as noise abaters—research prompted by the growing awareness that excessive noise is a form of environmental pollution.

• bat ear, rabate, trabea

From Old Galician-Portuguese abater (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin abbattere, from Latin battere. Compare Portuguese abater, Spanish abatir.

• IPA^(key): /abaˈteɾ/ [a.β̞aˈt̪eɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Hyphenation: a‧ba‧ter

abater (first-person singular present abato, first-person singular preterite abatín, past participle abatido)
abater (first-person singular present abato, first-person singular preterite abatim or abati, past participle abatido, reintegrationist norm)

1. (transitive) to bend, lower

   Synonyms: abaixar, amoucar

   1. to bring the grapevine and its tendrils to the beams and props prepared for growing it
2. (transitive) to overthrow, to throw down
3. (transitive) to defeat
4. (pronominal) to bend, lean
5. (pronominal) to become dispirited

• abatíbel

• bater

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “abater”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “abat”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “abater”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “abater”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “abater”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Galician-Portuguese abater, from Late Latin abbattere, from Latin battere. Compare Galician abater, Spanish abatir.

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• Hyphenation: a‧ba‧ter

abater (first-person singular present abato, first-person singular preterite abati, past participle abatido)

1. (intransitive) to collapse
2. (intransitive) to topple
3. (transitive) to slaughter
4. (intransitive) to abate, weaken
5. (transitive) to reduce

• “abater”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “abater”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “abater” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “abater”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “abater”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “abater”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025