Amate Definition

noun

Paper produced from the bark of adult Ficus trees.

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An art form based on Mexican bark painting from the Otomi culture.

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verb
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i.
Shall I accuse the hidden cruell fate, / And mightie causes wrought in heauen aboue, / Or the blind God, that doth me thus amate, / For hoped loue to winne me certaine hate?
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1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, xii.
Upon the walls the pagans old and youngStood hush'd and still, amated and amazed.
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1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1, p. 230.
For the last [...], he will be much amazed, he will be much amated.
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C. 1815, John Keats, "To Chatterton".
Thou didst die / A half-blown flow'ret which cold blasts amate.
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(obsolete) To be a mate to; to match.

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Other Word Forms of Amate

Noun

Singular:
amate
Plural:
amates

Origin of Amate

  • From Spanish papel amate (“amate paper”), from Classical Nahuatl āmatl (“paper”).

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  • From Old French amater, amatir.

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  • a- +‎ mate.

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Words Starting With

AAMAMA

Words Ending With

ETEATE

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