different between nates vs fates

English

Etymology

From Latin nat?s, plural of natis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ne?ti?z/
• Rhymes: -e?tiz

Noun

nates pl (plural only)

1. (anatomy, medicine) The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.
2. The buttocks.
   • 1963, Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr Enderby

     Enderby watched her warily as she lay prone, having kicked the clothes off the bed, her nates silvered by the Roman moonlight to the likeness of a meringue.

   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 3:

     He sat cross-legged on a damask pillow and scrutinized the pale puckered nates with the air of an epicure examining a fly in his vichyssoise.

3. (zoology) The umbones of a bivalve shell.

Anagrams

• Antes, Teans, Tenas, antes, etnas, neats, netas, senat, stane, stean

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?na.t?s/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?na.tes/

Noun

nates

1. plural of nata

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?na.te?s/, [?nät?e?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?na.tes/, [?n??t??s]

Etymology 1

From natis (“rump, buttocks”).

Noun

nat?s

1. nominative plural of natis
2. accusative plural of natis
3. vocative plural of natis

Etymology 2

Inflected form of nat? (“swim, float”).

Verb

nat?s

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of nat?

References

• nates in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nates in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nates in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• nates in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?ts/

Noun

fates

1. plural of fate

Verb

fates

1. (rare) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fate

Anagrams

• Festa, TAFEs, feast, feats, festa, fetas

Ladin

Adjective

fates

1. feminine plural of fat

Volapük

Noun

fates

1. dative plural of fat