different between abater vs acater

English

Etymology

abate +? -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??be?.t?/

Noun

abater (plural abaters)

1. One who, or that which, abates. [From 16^th century.]
   • 1583, Robert Parry (translator), The Second Part of the Myrror of Knighthood by Pedro de la Sierra, London, Thomas Este, Book 1, Part 2, Chapter 21,^[1]

     This is the great Prince of Grecia, called the Knight of the Sunne, restorer of the auncient kingdome of Tinacria, & the abater and breaker of the strength of the most strongest Giants in all the world.

   • 1732, John Arbuthnot, Practical Rules of Diet in the Various Constitutions and Diseases of Human Bodies, London: J. Tonson, Chapter 1, section 26, p. 281,^[2]

     Anodyne, or Abaters of Pain of the Alimentary Kind. Such things as relax the Tension of the affected nervous Fibres […]

   • 1908, John H. Wallace, Preservation of the Game, Fish and Forests of Alabama, address given before the Alabama Press Association, 23 July, 1908, State Printers and Binders, p. 6,^[3]

     As a fever germ abater in a malarial district, a flock of bull-bats is worth a grove of quinine trees.

   • 1972, David I. Cook and David F. Van Haverbeke, “Trees and shrubs can curb noise, but with quite a few loud ‘ifs’,” in The Yearbook of Agriculture, 972, Washington, D.C.: US Department of Agriculture, p. 28,^[4]

     […] research is proving the effectiveness of trees and shrubs as noise abaters—research prompted by the growing awareness that excessive noise is a form of environmental pollution.

Translations

Anagrams

• bat ear, rabate, trabea

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese abater (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *abbatuere, from Gaulish. Cognate with Portuguese abater, Spanish abatir, French abattre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?a?te?/

Verb

abater (first-person singular present abato, first-person singular preterite abatín, past participle abatido)

1. (transitive) to bend, lower

   Synonyms: abaixar, amoucar

   1. to bring the grapevine and its tendrils to the beams and props prepared for growing it
2. (transitive) to overthrow, to throw down
3. (transitive) to defeat
4. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to bend, lean
5. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to become dispirited

Conjugation

Derived terms

• abatíbel

Related terms

• bater

References

• “abater” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “abat” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “abater” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “abater” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “abater” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese abater, from Vulgar Latin *abbatere, present active infinitive of *abbat?, *abbatu?, from Latin battu?, from Gaulish.

Cognate with Galician abater, Spanish abatir, Catalan abatre, French abattre, Italian abbattere, and Romanian abate.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?.b?.?te?/, [?.??.?te?]
• Hyphenation: a?ba?ter

Verb

abater (first-person singular present indicative abato, past participle abatido)

1. (intransitive) to collapse
2. (intransitive) to topple
3. (transitive) to slaughter
4. (intransitive) to abate, weaken
5. first-person singular (eu) personal infinitive of abater
6. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) personal infinitive of abater
7. first-person singular (eu) future subjunctive of abater
8. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) future subjunctive of abater

Conjugation

Derived terms

• abatedouro

Related terms

• bater

Further reading

• “abater” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “abater” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “abater” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “abater” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2021.
• “abater” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “abater” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

English

Noun

acater (plural acaters)

1. (obsolete) caterer

Anagrams

• caetra, carate, cerata, ectara

Norman

Alternative forms

• acataer (continental Normandy)
• acataïr (Guernsey)

Etymology

From Old Northern French acater (compare Old French achater), from Vulgar Latin *accapt?re, from Latin ad + capt?re, present active infinitive of capt? (“I strive to seize, catch or grasp at”).

Pronunciation

Verb

acater

1. (Jersey) to buy

   Antonym: vendre

Derived terms

• acateux (“buyer”)

Related terms

• acat (“purchase”)

Old French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aka?te?r]

Verb

acater

1. (Old Northern French) Alternative form of acheter

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

• Norman: acataer, acataïr
• English: cater

Picard

Etymology

From Old French acater, northern variant of Old French achater, from Vulgar Latin *accapt?re, from Latin ad + capt?, capt?re.

Verb

acater

1. to buy

   Ej vo-t in vile por acater queuques pétiotés coses à minger

   I'm going in town to buy a few things to eat

Conjugation