different between prate vs drate

English

Etymology

From Middle English praten; related to Dutch praten (“to talk, chat”), Low German praten, Danish prate, Swedish prata (“to talk, prate”), Faroese práta (“to talk, gossip”), Icelandic prata; all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *prattuz (“idle or boastful talk, deceit”), from Proto-Indo-European *brodno- (“to wander, rove”). Cognate with Polish bredzi? (“to rave, jabber”), Latvian brad?t (“to talk nonsense”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?e?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Noun

prate (countable and uncountable, plural prates)

1. Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

prate (third-person singular simple present prates, present participle prating, simple past and past participle prated)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly.

   Synonyms: blabber; see also Thesaurus:prattle, Thesaurus:chatter

   • What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate, / When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate!

Translations

References

• prate, in Compact Oxford English Dictionary.
• prate, in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language.

Anagrams

• Peart, Petra, apert, apter, parte, pater, peart, petar, petra, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, trape, treap

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

prate

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of praten

Anagrams

• pater

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pr??t?/

Verb

prate (imperative prat, present tense prater, passive prates, simple past and past participle prata or pratet, present participle pratende)

1. to chat (om / about)

Derived terms

• pratsom

References

• “prate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

West Frisian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pra?t?/

Verb

prate

1. to talk

Inflection

Further reading

• “prate”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Alternative forms

• drait (17?^th century); dret (18?^th century)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dr?t, IPA^(key): /d?e?t/

Verb

drate

1. simple past tense of drite

References

• “drite, v.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]

Anagrams

• E-tard, adret, dater, derat, rated, tared, trade, tread