different between alate vs blate

English

Etymology 1

Latin ?l?tus, from ?la (“wing”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?e??le?t/ enPR: ??l?t'

Adjective

alate (comparative more alate, superlative most alate)

1. (entomology, botany) Having winglike extensions or parts; winged.

Synonyms

• alated

Derived terms

• alation
• bialate
• dealate
• exalate
• subalate
• trialate

Noun

alate (plural alates)

1. A winged, reproductive form of several social insects.

Etymology 2

a- +? late.

Adverb

alate (not comparable)

1. (archaic) recently; lately; of late.
   • 1552, Hugh Latimer, the first sermon upon the Lord's Prayer

     There hath been alate such tales spread abroad.

Italian

Verb

alate

1. second-person plural present indicative of alare
2. second-person plural imperative of alare
3. feminine plural of alato

Anagrams

• altea, talea

Latin

Adjective

?l?te

1. vocative masculine singular of ?l?tus

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ble?t/

Etymology 1

From Scots blate (“timid, sheepish”), apparently a conflation of Northern *Middle English blate, *blait (“pale, ghastly, terrified”), from Old English bl?t (“pale, livid, ghastly”), from Proto-West Germanic *blait (“pale, discoloured”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?leyd- (“pale, pallid”) and Middle English bleth, bleath (“timid, soft”), from Old English bl?aþ (“gentle, shy, cowardly, timid; slothful, inactive, effeminate”), from Proto-Germanic *blauþuz (“weak, timid, void, naked”). Cognate with German blassen (“to make pale”), bleich (“pale, pallid”). More at bleak, bleach.

Adjective

blate (comparative blater, superlative blatest)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Bashful, sheepish.
   • 1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 491:

     You'd say Not them; fine legs, and Ma struggling into her blouse would say You're no blate. Who told you they're fine?

2. (Scotland, Northern England) Dull, stupid.

Etymology 2

Verb

blate (third-person singular simple present blates, present participle blating, simple past and past participle blated)

1. Archaic form of bleat.

Anagrams

• ablet, bleat, table

Dutch

Verb

blate

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of blaten

Anagrams

• tabel

Scots

Etymology

Origin uncertain; perhaps from Old English bl?t (“pale”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [blet], [blit]

Adjective

blate (comparative blater, superlative blatest)

1. shy, modest, timid, sheepish
2. stupid, easily deceived, dull, unpromising