agate

From Middle French agathe, from Latin achatēs, from Ancient Greek ἀχάτης (akhátēs, “agate”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæɡət/

agate (countable and uncountable, plural agates)

1. (countable, uncountable, mineralogy) A semi-pellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
2. (uncountable, US printing, dated) The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5½-point.
3. (countable, typography) One fourteenth of an inch
4. (countable, obsolete) A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
5. (countable) A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.;—so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.
6. (countable) A marble made from agate.
7. (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.

• (type size): (UK) ruby
• (marble): aggie

• (mineralogy): fortification agate, Scotch pebble; moss agate, clouded agate

• moss agate
• agate line
• agateware

• aggie

a- (“on”) +‎ gate (“way”)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ʌˈɡat/

agate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) On the way; agoing.

   to be agate; to set the bells agate

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Cotgrave to this entry?)

agate

1. present adverbial passive participle of agi

agate m (plural agates)

1. agate

• “agate” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

agate

1. adverbial present passive participle of agar

agate f

1. plural of agata

Borrowed from Spanish ágata, from Old French agathe, from Latin achates, from Ancient Greek ἀχάτης (akhátēs).

• IPA^(key): /ǎɡátè/

ǎgáte

1. agate

• Hernández Cruz, Luis; Victoria Torquemada, Moisés (2010) Diccionario del hñähñu (otomí) del Valle del Mezquital, estado de Hidalgo (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 45)‎ (in Spanish), second edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 3