pate
See also: Appendix:Variations of "pate"
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English pate, of uncertain origin. Perhaps a shortened form of Old French patene or Medieval Latin patena, both from Latin patina (“pan, dish”). Alternatively, perhaps akin to Old Frisian pote (“skull”).
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pate (plural pates)
- (somewhat archaic) The head, particularly the top or crown.
- He had a shiny, bald pate.
- 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg: Eucharius Cervicornus and J. Soter?], →OCLC, Psalm vij:[16], folio xiij, recto, column 2:
- For his vnhappynes ſhall come vpon his owne heade, ⁊ his wickednes ſhall fall vpon his owne pate.
- 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 167:
- The whole benighted, blooming crew,
The Puddin'-thieves, the Usher too,
Are being beaten black and blue
With bottles on the pate.
- (archaic) Wit, cleverness, cognitive abilities.
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 16, column 1:
- I thank thee for that ieſt; heer’s a garment for’t:
Wit ſhall not goe vn-rewarded while I am King of this
Country: Steale by line and leuell, is an excellent paſſe
of pate: there’s another garment for’t.
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Translations edit
top of the head
wit, cleverness
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Etymology 2 edit
Attested since circa 1700, from French pâté, from Old French paste, pastée. Doublet of pâté.
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pate (plural pates)
- Alternative spelling of pâté (finely-ground paste of meat, fish, etc.)
- The interior body, or non-rind portion of cheese, described by its texture, density, and color.
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pate
Danish edit
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pate c (singular definite pateen, plural indefinite pateer)
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Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin pater, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.
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pate m (plural pati)
Further reading edit
- pate in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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pate
Latin edit
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patē
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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pate m (definite singular pateen, indefinite plural pateer, definite plural pateene)
- alternative spelling of paté
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
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pate m (definite singular pateen, indefinite plural patear, definite plural pateane)
- alternative spelling of paté
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Alternative forms
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pate
Romanian edit
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pate n (plural pateuri)
- Alternative form of pateu
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Declension of pate
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) pate | pateul | (niște) pateuri | pateurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) pate | pateului | (unor) pateuri | pateurilor |
vocative | pateule | pateurilor |
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pate f (plural pates)