ate

• et (informal pronunciation spelling)

• (US) IPA^(key): /eɪt/

• Audio (US):

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• (UK, Ireland) IPA^(key): /eɪt/, /ɛt/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [eːt]
• Rhymes: -ɛt, -eɪt
• Homophones: ait, eight, eyot

ate

1. simple past of eat
2. (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of eat
   • 1805, Maximilien de Béthune duc de Sully, Memoirs of Maximillian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister of Henry the Great […] ‎^[2], volume IV, page 171:

     I have a very good appetite, have ate some excellent melons, and they have served me up some quails, the fattest and tenderest I have ever ate.

   • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 192:

     As soon as all had ate, and the elder ones paid, the carriage was ordered; […]

   • 1929, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Nicky-Nan, Reservist‎^[3], page 27:

     “Haven't ate all the eggs, I hope? For I be hungry as a hunter […]

   • 2013 January 11 [1997], David Bell, Gill Valentine, Consuming Geographies: We Are Where We Eat‎^[4], Routledge, →ISBN, page 140:

     So I'd have ate when me Dad had ate, sort of thing, I think, you know when he come home from work, I'd have waited for him, I wouldn't have said I wanted mine at four o'clock […]

Borrowed from Tagalog ate (“elder sister”), from Hokkien 阿姊 (á-ché, “eldest sister”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔɐ.te/

ate (plural ates) (Philippines)

1. An elder sister
2. A respectful title or form of address for an older woman.

• eta, æt., eat, Tea, AET, aet, tea, a.e.t., ETA, aet., TEA

ate

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of atar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of atar

Unknown.

• IPA^(key): /ate/ [a.t̪e]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ate, -e
• Hyphenation: a‧te

ate inan

1. door, entrance
2. defile, gorge (deep, narrow passage)
3. (sports) goal (structure)
4. exterior, outside part

• “ate”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “ate”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• IPA^(key): /ɑt̪e/

ate

1. to know, be knowledgeable

• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDe’u" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːtə/

ate

1. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of eten

From Proto-Central-Pacific *qate, from Proto-Oceanic *qate, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Austronesian *qaCay.

ate

1. obsolete form of yate

ate

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

Borrowed from Hitu [Term?].

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈate/ [ˈa.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ate
• Syllabification: a‧te

ate (plural ate-ate)

1. sago leaves, sewn to make a roof

• “ate” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

ate

1. Rōmaji transcription of あて

From Proto-Philippine [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Austronesian *qaCay.

• IPA^(key): /əˈte/ [əˈtɛ]
• Hyphenation: a‧te

ate

1. (anatomy) liver

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Austronesian *qaCay.

ate

1. (anatomy) liver
2. (figurative) heart

• ole ate (“friend”)

• Rina, A. Dj., Kabba, John Lado B. (2011) “ate”, in Kamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page 6
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qaCay”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

ate

1. (anatomy) liver

• atia

Etymology unclear. Compare Latvian atā.^[1] The word may not be very old, and may ultimately derive from French adieu, via a Slavic intermediary.^[2]

ate

1. (informal) goodbye, ta-ta

   Synonyms: iki, viso gero

The interjection was originally restricted to childish language, but it is now used more generally in colloquial speech.^[1] The VLKK recommends against using it in official communication.^[2]

ate

1. he, him (personal pronoun)
2. she, her (personal pronoun)
3. it (personal pronoun)

From Proto-Polynesian *qate,^[1] from Proto-Oceanic *qate (compare with Fijian yate), from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatay (compare with Malay hati and Tagalog atay), from Proto-Austronesian *qaCay.^[2][3] Compare with Malay hati for similar connections of this organ with emotions.

ate

1. (anatomy) liver (organ of the body)
2. any kind of organ (in compound words)^[4]

   atewharowharo: lung

3. heart (seat of emotions)

• ateate

• “ate” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

ate

1. (Early Middle English) alternative form of ote

• IPA^(key): /ʔate/

ate

1. liver

• The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar (2013, →ISBN, page 684

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Austronesian *qaCay.

ate (mutated form gate)

1. liver

• Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 21.

ate (changed conjunct form eteg, reduplicated form ayate, augmented form atemagad)

1. be (in a certain place)

   Gii-kwanabise iwe biskitenaagan imaa adoopowinaakong gaa-ateg.

   The birch bark tray that was sitting on the table tipped over.

• abi
• ayaa
• biinde
• dagon

• The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/ate-vii

• ǣte

From Proto-West Germanic *aitā.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.te/

āte f

1. oat

Weak feminine (n-stem):

• ātih

• Middle English: ate, ote
  • English: oat
  • Scots: ate, ait, yit

ate

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

Cognate with Ternate hate.

• IPA^(key): /a.te/

ate

1. tree

• Leontine Visser, Clemens Voorhoeve (1987) Sahu-Indonesian-English Dictionary, Brill

ate (plural ates)

1. alternative form of ait (“oat”)

• “ate, n.²”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /ˈate/ [ˈa.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ate
• Syllabification: a‧te

Of Nahuatl origin.

ate m (plural ates)

1. a kind of Mexican jelly candy made by cooking fruit pulp, usually from guava, quince, peach or prickly pear

   Synonym: dulce

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ate

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

• “ate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Hokkien 阿姊 (á-chí / á-ché, “eldest sister”) as per Chan-Yap (1980) and Manuel (1948). Compare Indonesian ace, Kapampangan atsi, Remontado Agta itti. Doublet of atsi.

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈʔate/ [ˈʔaː.t̪ɛ]
    • Rhymes: -ate
    • Homophone: Ate
  • IPA^(key): /ʔaˈte/ [ʔɐˈt̪ɛ] (uncommon)
    • Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: a‧te

ate (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜆᜒ)

1. elder sister; big sister

   Synonyms: (Nueva Ecija) ateng, (Chinese Filipino) atsi

   Nagluto sina ate at nanay ng pananghalian namin.

   Our big sister and mother cooked our lunch.

2. eldest sister
3. term of address for one's elder sister

   Synonyms: (Nueva Ecija) ateng, (Chinese Filipino) atsi

4. (informal) term of address for a female senior (in school, work, etc.)

   Synonyms: (Nueva Ecija) ateng, (Chinese Filipino) atsi

   Tinanong ko si ate sa hayskul, "Ate, ano po ang mga gawain niyo sa hayskul".

   I asked my senior from high school, "Miss, what activities do you do in high school?"

5. (informal) term of address for any young female perceived to be older than the speaker: miss; sis

   Synonym: (Nueva Ecija) ateng

   Bumili ako ng pagkain kay ate.

   I bought food from the miss.

6. (Laguna, Quezon, informal) aunt

• ati
• te, teh — term of address, colloquial

• kuya

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈteʔ/ [ʔɐˈt̪ɛʔ]
• Rhymes: -eʔ
• Syllabification: a‧te

atê (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜆᜒ)

1. (childish) dirt

   Synonyms: atse, tsetse, aa

• “ate”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980) “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics, volume B, number 71 (PDF), Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 141
• Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 14
• 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “阿姊”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[5] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
• Douglas, Carstairs (1873) “ché”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, With the Principal Variations of the Chang-chew and Chin-chew Dialects. (overall work in Hokkien and English), London: Trübner & Co., page 30; New Edition, With Corrections by the Author., Thomas Barclay, Lîm Iàn-sîn 林燕臣, London: Publishing Office of the Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 30
• Douglas, Carstairs (1873) “chí”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, With the Principal Variations of the Chang-chew and Chin-chew Dialects. (overall work in Hokkien and English), London: Trübner & Co., page 38; New Edition, With Corrections by the Author., Thomas Barclay, Lîm Iàn-sîn 林燕臣, London: Publishing Office of the Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 38

• tae

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.te]

ate

1. (intransitive) to connect

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

• at
• attai
• āte

Probably from Proto-Tocharian *āté, from Proto-Indo-European *éti (“beyond, over”) or *h₂éti (“away, back, again”).

ate

1. away

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “ate”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 10

• IPA^(key): /aˈtɛ/

ate

1. ow, ouch (expressing pain in response to heat)

   Ate! Inyatapai itsei! ― Ow! [The] fire is hot! [I got singed or burned].

• E. Ireland field notes. Need to be checked by native speaker.