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maté

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mate" and mate

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Maté

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish mate, from Quechua mati.

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Noun

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maté (countable and uncountable, plural matés)

  1. (countable) An evergreen tree, Ilex paraguariensis, native to South America, cultivated for its leaves.
    Synonyms: yerba mate, yerba
  2. (uncountable) A beverage, resembling tea, made from the dried leaves of this plant.
    Synonym: maté tea
    We spent a month in Buenos Aires drinking nothing but maté and Fernet with soda.
  3. (countable) A cup of this drink.
  4. (countable, uncommon) The container used to prepare this drink, traditionally a small calabash.
    Synonym: gourd
    Coordinate term: bombilla
    • 1856 July–October, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, volume IV, A. and C. Black, page 194:
      The maté is then filled with yerva, after the bombilla has been placed in position.

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Asturian

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Verb

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maté

  1. first-person singular indefinite preterite indicative of matar

Czech

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish mate, from Quechua mati.

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Noun

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maté n (indeclinable)

  1. maté
    čaj maté ― maté tea

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  • “maté”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “maté”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • “maté”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Spanish mate, from Quechua mati (“gourd”).

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Noun

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maté m (plural matés)

  1. maté

Etymology 2

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Participle

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maté (feminine matée, masculine plural matés, feminine plural matées)

  1. past participle of mater

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Spanish

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maté

  1. first-person singular preterite indicative of matar
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