abater
See also: abàter
Contents
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (General American) IPA(key): /əˈbeɪ.tɚ/
NounEdit
abater (plural abaters)
- One who, or that which, abates. [From 16th century.]
- 1583, Robert Parry (translator), The Second Part of the Myrror of Knighthood by Pedro de la Sierra, London, Thomas Este, Book 1, Part 2, Chapter 21,[1]
- This is the great Prince of Grecia, called the Knight of the Sunne, restorer of the auncient kingdome of Tinacria, & the abater and breaker of the strength of the most strongest Giants in all the world.
- 1732, John Arbuthnot, Practical Rules of Diet in the Various Constitutions and Diseases of Human Bodies, London: J. Tonson, Chapter 1, section 26, p. 281,[2]
- Anodyne, or Abaters of Pain of the Alimentary Kind. Such things as relax the Tension of the affected nervous Fibres […]
- 1908, John H. Wallace, Preservation of the Game, Fish and Forests of Alabama, address given before the Alabama Press Association, 23 July, 1908, State Printers and Binders, p. 6,[3]
- As a fever germ abater in a malarial district, a flock of bull-bats is worth a grove of quinine trees.
- 1972, David I. Cook and David F. Van Haverbeke, “Trees and shrubs can curb noise, but with quite a few loud ‘ifs’,” in The Yearbook of Agriculture, 972, Washington, D.C.: US Department of Agriculture, p. 28,[4]
- […] research is proving the effectiveness of trees and shrubs as noise abaters—research prompted by the growing awareness that excessive noise is a form of environmental pollution.
- 1583, Robert Parry (translator), The Second Part of the Myrror of Knighthood by Pedro de la Sierra, London, Thomas Este, Book 1, Part 2, Chapter 21,[1]
TranslationsEdit
one who, or that which, abates
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AnagramsEdit
GalicianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese abater (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *abbatuere, from Gaulish. Cognate with Portuguese abater, Spanish abatir, French abattre.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
abater (first-person singular present abato, first-person singular preterite abatín, past participle abatido)
- (transitive) to bend, lower
- (transitive) to overthrow, to throw down
- (transitive) to defeat
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to bend, lean
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to become dispirited
ConjugationEdit
Conjugation of abater
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “abater” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “abat” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “abater” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “abater” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “abater” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Portuguese abater, from Vulgar Latin *abbatere, present active infinitive of *abbatō, *abbatuō, from Latin battuō, from Gaulish.
Cognate with Galician abater, Spanish abatir, Catalan abatre, French abattre, Italian abbattere, and Romanian abate.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
abater (first-person singular present indicative abato, past participle abatido)
- to collapse
- to topple
- to slaughter
- to abate, weaken
- first-person singular (eu) personal infinitive of abater
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) personal infinitive of abater
- first-person singular (eu) future subjunctive of abater
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) future subjunctive of abater
ConjugationEdit
Conjugation of the Portuguese -er verb abater