different between metate vs metage

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish metate, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *metlatl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??t??te?/

Noun

metate (plural metates)

1. A flat stone with a slightly concave surface, used with another stone (a mano) for grinding maize or other grains.

Translations

Esperanto

Adverb

metate

1. present adverbial passive participle of meti

Latin

Participle

m?t?te

1. vocative masculine singular of m?t?tus

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *metlatl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?tate/, [me?t?a.t?e]

Noun

metate m (plural metates)

1. metate

Descendants

• ? English: metate

See also

• molcajete

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

mete +? -age

Noun

metage (countable and uncountable, plural metages)

1. Measurement, especially of coal.
   • 1724-1727, Daniel Defoe, A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain

     1 measurement or Metage of Coals

2. A fee paid for a measurement.
   • 1858, City of London (England) Corporation, The Title of the Corporation of London to Its Metage Revenues, page 4,

     The corporation of London acquired its metage rights from the crown before the time of legal memory, and now holds them by the best of titles, prescriptive right and immemorial possession; for, except in those memorable periods in English history, the reigns of King John, King James the First, King Charles the Second, and King James the Second, the right and title of the corporation to its metage due has never been questioned or disturbed.

References

Anagrams

• gamete