different between cate vs catel

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ke?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Etymology

Aphetized from acate.

Noun

cate (plural cates)

1. (in the plural) A delicacy or item of food.
   • 1590s, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, First Folio 1623, Act I:

     Kate of Kate-hall, my super-daintie Kate, / For dainties are all Kates, and therefore Kate / Take this of me, Kate of my consolation […]

   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 101:

     Have we not heard of divers most fertile regions, plenteously yeelding al maner of necessary victuals, where neverthelesse the most ordinary cates [transl. méz] and daintiest dishes, were but bread, water-cresses, and water?

   • 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:

     He did not at first produce the cates and vintages they expected; they looked, most of them, puzzled at the lack of materials of revelry.

Anagrams

• CETA, acet-, tace

Asturian

Verb

cate

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of catar

Khumi Chin

Alternative forms

• chauteh (Khimi Chin)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?.te?/

Verb

cate

1. (transitive) to eat

References

• K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin?^[1], Payap University, page 86

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ka.te/, [?kät??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ka.te/, [?k??t??]

Adjective

cate

1. vocative masculine singular of catus

References

• cate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ca?te

Verb

cate

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of catar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of catar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of catar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of catar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kate/, [?ka.t?e]

Verb

cate

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of catar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of catar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of catar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of catar.

Middle English

Etymology

See Modern English chattel.

Noun

catel

1. Property, as distinguished from rent or income.
   • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 541-2.

     Hise tithes payed he ful faire and wel,

     Bothe of his propre swynk and his catel.

Old French

Noun

catel m (oblique plural cateaus or cateax or catiaus or catiax or catels, nominative singular cateaus or cateax or catiaus or catiax or catels, nominative plural catel)

1. (Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French) Alternative form of chatel