pate

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pate"

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English pate, of uncertain origen. Perhaps a shortened form of Old French patene or Medieval Latin patena, both from Latin patina (“pan, dish”). Alternatively, perhaps akin to Old Frisian pote (“skull”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peɪt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪt

Noun

pate (plural pates)

1. (somewhat archaic) The head, particularly the top or crown.

   He had a shiny, bald pate.

   • 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Psalm vij:[16], folio xiij, recto, column 2:

     For his vnhappynes ſhall come vpon his owne heade, ⁊ his wickednes ſhall fall vpon his owne pate.

   • 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 167:

     The whole benighted, blooming crew,
     The Puddin'-thieves, the Usher too,
     Are being beaten black and blue
     With bottles on the pate.

2. (archaic) Wit, cleverness, cognitive abilities.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     I am reſolued, tis but a thee yeeres faſt:
     The minde ſhall banquet, though the body pine,
     Fat paunches haue leane pates: and daynty bits
     Make rich the ribbes, but banerout quite the wits.

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 16, column 1:

     I thank thee for that ieſt; heer’s a garment for’t:
     Wit ſhall not goe vn-rewarded while I am King of this
     Country: Steale by line and leuell, is an excellent paſſe
     of pate: there’s another garment for’t.

Derived terms

• addle pate
• pated
• rattlepate

 

Translations

top of the head

• Albanian: rrashtë (sq) f, tepe (sq) f, çaçkë (sq) f
• Bulgarian: теме (bg) (teme)
• Czech: temeno (cs) n
• Finnish: päälaki (fi)
• Hungarian: fejtető (hu), fej(e) búbja
• Irish: plait f
• Russian: маку́шка (ru) f (makúška), ма́ковка (ru) f (mákovka)
• Scottish Gaelic: claigeann m
• Spanish: corona (es) f
• Swedish: hjässa (sv) c, skult (sv) c
• Ugaritic: 𐎖𐎄𐎖𐎄 (qdqd)
• Welsh: iad f

wit, cleverness

• Bulgarian: акъл (bg) m (akǎl)
• Russian: ум (ru) m (um), рассу́док (ru) m (rassúdok)
• Spanish: vivaracho (es)

See also

• capital

Etymology 2

Attested since circa 1700, from French pâté, from Old French paste, pastée. Doublet of pâté and patty.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæt.eɪ/, /pæˈteɪ/
• Rhymes: -æteɪ, -eɪ

Noun

pate (plural pates)

1. Alternative spelling of pâté (finely-ground paste of meat, fish, etc.)
2. The interior body, or non-rind portion of cheese, described by its texture, density, and color.

Related terms

• pasta
• paste
• patty

Anagrams

• PETA, Paet, Peat, Peta, epta-, peat, peta-, tape, tepa

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpatɛ]

Noun

pate

1. vocative singular of pat

Danish

Alternative forms

• paté

Etymology

From French pâté.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pate/, [pʰaˈtˢe]
• Rhymes: -e

Noun

pate c (singular definite pateen, plural indefinite pateer)

1. pâté

Inflection

Declension of pate

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	pate	pateen	pateer	pateerne
genitive	pates	pateens	pateers	pateernes

Italian

Etymology

From Latin pater, from Proto-Italic *patēr, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: pà‧te

Noun

pate m (plural pati)

1. (obsolete) father

   Synonym: padre

Further reading

• pate in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• epta-

Japanese

Romanization

pate

1. Rōmaji transcription of パテ

Latin

Verb

patē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of pateō

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

pate m (definite singular pateen, indefinite plural pateer, definite plural pateene)

1. alternative spelling of paté

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

pate m (definite singular pateen, indefinite plural patear, definite plural pateane)

1. alternative spelling of paté

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀧𑀢𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• पते (Devanagari script)
• পতে (Bengali script)
• පතෙ (Sinhalese script)
• ပတေ (Burmese script)
• ปเต or ปะเต (Thai script)
• ᨷᨲᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ປເຕ or ປະເຕ (Lao script)
• បតេ (Khmer script)
• 𑄛𑄖𑄬 (Chakma script)

Verb

pate

1. singular optative active of patati (“to fall”)

Romanian

Noun

pate n (plural pateuri)

1. Alternative form of pateu

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	pate	pateul		pateuri	pateurile
genitive-dative	pate	pateului		pateuri	pateurilor
vocative	pateule			pateurilor

Walloon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pat/

Noun

pate f (plural pates)

1. paw, leg