metate
See also: metáte
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish metate, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *metlatl.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
metate (plural metates)
- A flat stone with a slightly concave surface, used with another stone (a mano) for grinding maize or other grains.
- 1985, James A. Michener, chapter V, in Texas, page 326:
- Each evening, when he returned home, he found that María he prepared some new treat, for she was a most ingenious woman, capable of transforming the poorest materials into something delicious, and he grew to love the tortillas she made so patiently, kneeling before the stone metate as she beat the boiled corn into the gray-white mixture she later baked on the flat rocks.
Translations edit
flat stone for grinding grains
Esperanto edit
Adverb edit
metate
- present adverbial passive participle of meti
Latin edit
Participle edit
mētāte
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *metlatl.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
metate m (plural metates)
- metate (a flat stone with a slightly concave surface, used with another stone (mano) for grinding maize or other grains)
Descendants edit
- → English: metate
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “metate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014