petate

Cimbrian

Noun

petate ?

1. (Tredici Comuni) potato

References

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

Esperanto

Adverb

petate

1. present adverbial passive participle of peti

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

petate bedroll mat

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

Noun

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

Derived terms

• llamarada de petate
• petatearse

 

Related terms

• petaca

 

Etymology 2

Verb

petate

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

Further reading

• “petate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014