maté
See also: Appendix:Variations of "mate" and mate
English
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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 (in Czech), 1935-1957
- “maté”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “maté”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
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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