different between maguey vs mecate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish maguey, from Taíno *mawei.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m???e?/

Noun

maguey (plural magueys)

1. Any of various large agaves of Mexico and the southern US, especially the American aloe, Agave americana.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 424:

     through black fields, where tlachiqueros brought sheepskins slung across their backs full of fresh maguey juice to be fermented, and campesinos in white lined the right-of-way

   • 1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, Vintage 1992, p. 147:

     and they rode through strange forests of maguey--the aloe or century plant--with immense flowering stalks that rose forty feet into the desert air.

   Synonyms: agave, pita, century plant

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:maguey.

Translations

References

• maguey on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Agave americana on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Agave americana on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Agave americana at USDA Plants database

Spanish

Alternative forms

• magüey

Etymology

Borrowed from Taíno *mawei.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma?ei/, [?ma.??ei?]

Noun

maguey m (plural magueyes)

1. (Latin America) maguey

   Synonym: pita

Further reading

• “maguey” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mecate, from a Nahuan language; c.f. Classical Nahuatl mecatl.

Noun

mecate (plural mecates)

1. (US, Southwestern US) A rope of hair or maguey fibre, for tying horses, etc.

Anagrams

• McAtee, acteme

Ladino

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mecate, from a Nahuan language; c.f. Classical Nahuatl mecatl.

Noun

mecate m (Latin spelling)

1. (Hekatia) a thick cord

References

• Bendayán de Bendelac, Alegría (1995) Diciconario del judeoespañol de los sefardíes del norte de Marruecos (Jaquetía tradicional y moderna), Caracas, page 464

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from a Nahuan language; c.f. Classical Nahuatl mecatl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?kate/, [me?ka.t?e]

Noun

mecate m (plural mecates)

1. (Central America, Mexico, Venezuela, Philippines) rope, cord

   Synonyms: cuerda, soga, cordel

Related terms

• zacamecate

Further reading

• “mecate” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.