matate

Spanish

Etymology 1

From Classical Nahuatl mātlatl (“net”).

Noun

matate m (plural matates)

1. (Honduras) bag-shaped net

Etymology 2

Verb

matate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of matar combined with te

Further reading

• “matate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014