pate

From Middle English (attested since around 1200), perhaps a shortened form of Old French patene or Medieval Latin patena, both from Latin patina (“pan, dish”).

• IPA^(key): /peɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt

pate (plural pates)

1. (somewhat archaic) The head, particularly the top or crown.

   He had a shiny, bald pate.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Psalms 7:16:

     His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

2. (archaic) Wit, cleverness, cognitive abilities.
   • 1598, Love's Labour's Lost, by Shakespeare

     I am resolved; 'tis but a three years' fast:

     The mind shall banquet, though the body pine:

     Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits

     Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits.

   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 4 scene 1

     I thank thee for that jest: here's a garment

     for't: wit shall not go unrewarded while I am king of

     this country: 'Steal by line and level,' is an excellent

     pass of pate: there's another garment for't.

• pated

• capital

Attested since circa 1700, from French pâté, from Old French paste, pastée.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæt.eɪ/, /pæˈteɪ/
• Rhymes: -æteɪ, -eɪ

pate (plural pates)

1. Alternative spelling of pâté (finely-ground paste of meat, fish, etc.)
2. The interior body, or non-rind portion of cheese, described by its texture, density, and color.

• PETA, Paet, Peat, Peta, epta-, peat, peta-, tape, tepa

• IPA^(key): /ˈpatɛ/

pate

1. vocative singular of pat

• paté

From French pâté.

• IPA^(key): /pate/, [pʰaˈtˢe]
• Rhymes: -e

pate c (singular definite pateen, plural indefinite pateer)

1. pâté

pate

1. Rōmaji transcription of パテ

patē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of pateō

pate

1. singular optative active of patati (“to fall”)

pate f (plural pates)

1. paw, leg