maté
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "mate" and mate
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish mate, from Quechua mati.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
maté (countable and uncountable, plural matés)
- (countable) An evergreen tree, Ilex paraguariensis, native to South America, cultivated for its leaves.
- Synonyms: yerba mate, yerba
- (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.
- (countable) A cup of this drink.
- (countable, uncommon) The container used to prepare this drink, traditionally a small calabash.
- 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.
Translations[edit]
shrub that produces the beverage maté
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the beverage maté
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Further reading[edit]
- mate (beverage) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams[edit]
Asturian[edit]
Verb[edit]
maté
Czech[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish mate, from Quechua mati.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
maté n (indeclinable)
- maté
- čaj maté ― maté tea
Further reading[edit]
- maté in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- maté in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- maté in Internetová jazyková příručka
French[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish mate, from Quechua mati (“gourd”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
maté m (plural matés)
Etymology 2[edit]
Participle[edit]
maté (feminine matée, masculine plural matés, feminine plural matées)
- past participle of mater
Further reading[edit]
- “maté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
maté
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