different between agate vs agnate

English

Etymology 1

From Middle French agathe, from Latin achat?s, from Ancient Greek ?????? (akhát?s, “agate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ.??t/
• Rhymes: -æ??t

Noun

agate (countable and uncountable, plural agates)

1. (countable, uncountable, mineralogy) A semi-pellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
2. (uncountable, US printing, dated) The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5+¹?₂-point.
3. (countable, typography) One fourteenth of an inch
4. (countable, obsolete) A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
5. (countable) A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.;—so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.
6. (countable) A marble made from agate.
7. (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.

Synonyms

• (type size): (UK) ruby
• (marble): aggie

Hyponyms

• (mineralogy): fortification agate, Scotch pebble; moss agate, clouded agate

Derived terms

• moss agate
• agate line
• agateware

Related terms

• aggie

Translations

Etymology 2

a- (“on”) +? gate (“way”)

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /???æt/

Adverb

agate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) On the way; agoing.

   to be agate; to set the bells agate

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Basque

Etymology

From Proto-Basque *anate, from Latin anatem (“duck”).

Pronunciation

• (Biscayan) IPA^(key): /a.?a.te/

Noun

agate inan

1. (Biscayan) Alternative form of ahate.

Esperanto

Adverb

agate

1. present adverbial passive participle of agi

French

Noun

agate m (plural agates)

1. agate

Further reading

• “agate” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Ido

Verb

agate

1. adverbial present passive participle of agar

Italian

Noun

agate f

1. plural of agata

Mezquital Otomi

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish ágata, from Old French agathe, from Latin achates, from Ancient Greek ?????? (akhát?s).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??áte/

Noun

?gáte

1. agate

References

• Hernández Cruz, Luis; Victoria Torquemada, Moisés (2010) Diccionario del hñähñu (otomí) del Valle del Mezquital, estado de Hidalgo (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 45)?^[1] (in Spanish), second edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 3

English

Etymology

from Latin agn?tus (“paternal kinsman”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ?ne?t/

Noun

agnate (plural agnates)

1. A relative whose relation is traced only through male members of the family.

   A great-grandfather is an agnate if he is your father’s father’s father.
2. Any paternal male relative.

Antonyms

• enate

Translations

Adjective

agnate (comparative more agnate, superlative most agnate)

1. Related to someone by male connections or on the paternal side of the family.
2. allied; akin

   • Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate […] with the former.

3. (linguistics) Having a similar semantic meaning.

Synonyms

• agnatic, patrilineal

Derived terms

• agnatic
• agnation

Translations

Anagrams

• Gaetan, Teagan, negata

Latin

Noun

agn?te

1. vocative singular of agn?tus