mayate
Chayuco Mixtec
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish mayate, from a Nahuan language.
Noun
editmayate
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- Pensinger, Brenda J. (1974) Diccionario mixteco-español, español-mixteco (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 18)[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Educación Extraescolar en el Medio Indígena, page 19
Spanish
editPronunciation
edit
- Rhymes: -ate
- Syllabification: ma‧ya‧te
Etymology 1
editBorrowed from a Nahuan language; cf. Classical Nahuatl mayātl.
Noun
editmayate m (plural mayates)
- figeater beetle, June bug (Cotinis mutabilis)
- (Mexico, slang) active (top) homosexual or bisexual
- (Chicano, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) black person
See also
editEtymology 2
editVerb
editmayate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of mayar combined with te
Further reading
edit- “mayate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- Chayuco Mixtec terms borrowed from Spanish
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- Chayuco Mixtec terms derived from Nahuan languages
- Chayuco Mixtec lemmas
- Chayuco Mixtec nouns
- mih:Insects
- Spanish 3-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ate
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- Spanish terms borrowed from Nahuan languages
- Spanish terms derived from Nahuan languages
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
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- es:Beetles
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