petate

petate ?

1. (Tredici Comuni) potato

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

petate

1. present adverbial passive participle of peti

• IPA^(key): /peˈtate/ [peˈt̪a.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ate
• Syllabification: pe‧ta‧te

Borrowed from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *petlatl.

petate m (plural petates)

1. fibers obtained from the leaves of palm trees found in the Caribbean and Mesoamerica (most commonly Leucothrinax morrisii and Thrinax radiata)
2. a mat woven from petate, commonly used as a bedroll and for other purposes

   Synonym: estera

3. (Mexico, US, Philippines) a rustic cot

petate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of petar combined with te

• “petate”, 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