amate

From Spanish papel amate (“amate paper”), from Classical Nahuatl āmatl (“paper”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈmɑːteɪ/

amate (plural amates)

1. Paper produced from the bark of adult Ficus trees.
2. An art form based on Mexican bark painting from the Otomi culture.

From Old French amater, amatir.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈmeɪt/

amate (third-person singular simple present amates, present participle amating, simple past and past participle amated)

1. (obsolete) To dishearten, dismay.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     The Silures, to amate the new general, rumoured the overthrow greater than was true.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book I, canto I:

     Shall I accuse the hidden cruell fate, / And mightie causes wrought in heauen aboue, / Or the blind God, that doth me thus amate, / For hoped loue to winne me certaine hate?

   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, xii:

     Upon the walls the pagans old and young / Stood hush'd and still, amated and amazed.

   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.230:

     For the last […], he will be much amazed, he will be much amated.

   • c.1815, John Keats, "To Chatterton":

     Thou didst die / A half-blown flow'ret which cold blasts amate.

a- +‎ mate.

amate (third-person singular simple present amates, present participle amating, simple past and past participle amated)

1. (obsolete) To be a mate to; to match.

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

• A team, A-team

amate

1. present adverbial passive participle of ami

• IPA^(key): /aˈma.te/

amate

1. past participle of amar

amate f pl

1. feminine plural of amato

amate f

1. plural of amata

amate

1. second-person plural present indicative of amare
2. second-person plural imperative of amare
3. feminine plural of amato

• a tema

amāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of amō

amāte

1. vocative masculine singular of amātus

Borrowed from a Nahuan language; c.f. Classical Nahuatl āmatl.

• IPA^(key): /aˈmate/, [aˈmat̪e]

amate m (plural amates)

1. fig tree (Ficus sp.)
   1. (Guerrero) Ficus obtusifolia

      Synonym: amate blanco

   2. (Oaxaca) petiolate fig (Ficus petiolaris)

      Synonym: amate amarillo

   3. (Chiapas, Tabasco) Ficus segoviae
   4. (Oaxaca) Florida strangler fig (Ficus aurea)

      Synonym: amate prieto

2. creeping fig (Ficus pumila)
3. amate paper

   Synonym: papel amate

4. amate (art form)

• → English: amate

• Catalogo alfabético de nombres vulgares y científicos de plantas que existen en México, México: Imprenta de la Dirección de Estudios Biológicos, 1923, page 42
• Schoenhals, Louise C. (1988) A Spanish - English Glossary of Mexican Flora and Fauna‎, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 16