maté

• mate, matë

Borrowed from Spanish mate, from Quechua mati.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈmæteɪ/, /ˈmɑteɪ/

• Rhymes: -æteɪ, -ɑːteɪ

maté (countable and uncountable, plural matés)

1. (countable) An evergreen tree, Ilex paraguariensis, native to South America, cultivated for its leaves.

   Synonyms: yerba mate, yerba

2. (uncountable) A beverage, resembling tea, made from the dried leaves of this plant.

   Synonym: maté tea

   We spent a month in Buenos Aires drinking nothing but maté and Fernet with soda.

3. (countable) A cup of this drink.
4. (countable, uncommon) The container used to prepare this drink, traditionally a small calabash.

   Synonym: gourd

   Coordinate term: bombilla

   • 1856 July–October, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, volume IV, A. and C. Black, page 194:

     The maté is then filled with yerva, after the bombilla has been placed in position.

• mate (beverage) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• AEMT, ATEM, Atem, META, Meta, Tame, Team, Tema, meat, meta, meta-, tame, team

maté

1. first-person singular indefinite preterite indicative of matar

Borrowed from Spanish mate, from Quechua mati.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmatɛː]
• Rhymes: -atɛː
• Hyphenation: ma‧té

maté n (indeclinable)

1. maté

   čaj maté ― maté tea

• “maté”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “maté”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “maté”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

• mate

From Spanish mate, from Quechua mati.

• Audio:

  (file)

maté m (uncountable)

1. mate, yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis)

   Synonym: matéplant

2. mate (tea-like beverage made with yerba mate)

• maté on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Borrowed from Spanish mate, from Quechua mati (“gourd”).

• IPA^(key): /ma.te/

maté m (plural matés)

1. maté

maté (feminine matée, masculine plural matés, feminine plural matées)

1. past participle of mater

• “maté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• méat

maté

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of matar