maté
See also: Appendix:Variations of "mate" and mate
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish mate, from Quechua mati.
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maté (countable and uncountable, plural matés)
- (countable) An evergreen tree, Ilex paraguariensis, native to South America, cultivated for its leaves.
- Synonyms: yerba mate, yerba
- (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.
- (countable) A cup of this drink.
- (countable, uncommon) The container used to prepare this drink, traditionally a small calabash.
- 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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shrub that produces the beverage maté
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the beverage maté
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Further reading edit
- mate (beverage) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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maté
Czech edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish mate, from Quechua mati.
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maté n (indeclinable)
- maté
- čaj maté ― maté tea
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Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Spanish mate, from Quechua mati (“gourd”).
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maté m (plural matés)
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Participle edit
maté (feminine matée, masculine plural matés, feminine plural matées)
- past participle of mater
Further reading edit
- “maté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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maté