Word mate meaning of

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /meɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English mate, a borrowing from Middle Low German mate (“messmate”) (replacing Middle English mette (“table companion, mate, partner”), from Old English ġemetta (“sharer of food, table-guest”)), derived from Proto-Germanic *gamatjô, itself from *ga- (“together”) (related to German and Dutch ge-) + *matjô (from *matiz (“food”)), related to Old English mete (“food”)). From the same Middle Low German source stems German Low German Maat (“journeyman, companion”), German Maat (“naval non-commissioned officer”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Moat (“friend, buddy, comrade, mate”), Dutch maat (“mate, partner, colleague, friend”). More at Old English ġe-, English co-, English meat. Doublet of maat.

Noun[edit]

mate (plural mates)

1. A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.

   Synonyms: fellow, (poetic, archaic) fere

   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 152:

     A «mate» was a «mate» — share and share alike, no matter how bad might be the times, or how long a spell of ill luck had attended them.

2. (especially of a non-human animal) A breeding partner.
3. (colloquial, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) A friend, usually of the same sex.

   Synonyms: friend, buddy; see also Thesaurus:friend

   I’m going to the pub with a few mates.

   He’s my best mate.

4. (colloquial, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) Friendly term of address to a stranger, usually male, of similar age.

   Synonym: buddy

   Excuse me, mate, have you got the time?

5. (nautical) In naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer or his subordinate (e.g. Boatswain’s Mate, Gunner’s Mate, Sailmaker’s Mate, etc).
6. (nautical) A ship’s officer, subordinate to the master on a commercial ship.
7. (nautical) A first mate.
8. A technical assistant in certain trades (e.g. gasfitter’s mate, plumber’s mate); sometimes an apprentice.
9. The other member of a matched pair of objects.

   I found one of the socks I wanted to wear, but I couldn’t find its mate.

10. A suitable companion; a match; an equal.

    • 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

      Ye knew me once no mate / For you; there sitting where you durst not soar.

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

mate (third-person singular simple present mates, present participle mating, simple past and past participle mated)

1. (intransitive) To match, fit together without space between.

   Synonyms: match, couple, pair

   The pieces of the puzzle mate perfectly.

2. (intransitive) To copulate.

   Synonyms: couple; see also Thesaurus:copulate

3. (intransitive) To pair in order to raise offspring.
4. (transitive) To arrange in matched pairs.
5. (transitive) To introduce (animals) together for the purpose of breeding.
6. (transitive, of an animal) To copulate with.
7. (transitive) To marry; to match (a person).

   • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     If she be mated with an equal husband.

8. (transitive) To match oneself against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.

   • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Death”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:

     There is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death.

   • 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare; [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     I, […] in the way of loyalty and truth, […] / Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be.

9. (transitive) To fit (objects) together without space between.
10. (intransitive) To come together as companions, comrades, partners, etc.

    • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 152:

      Indeed, some cases of devotion that were met with were quite touching; and very often to all appearances the pairs were not always mated from the same class of society.

11. (transitive, aerospace) To move (a space shuttle orbiter) onto the back of an aircraft that can carry it.

    Antonym: demate

Derived terms[edit]

• mating

Translations[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English verb maten, from Middle French mater, from Old French noun mat (“checkmate”), from Persian شاه مات‎ (šâh mât).

Noun[edit]

mate (plural mates)

1. (chess) Clipping of checkmate.

Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

mate (third-person singular simple present mates, present participle mating, simple past and past participle mated)

1. (chess) Clipping of checkmate.

Translations[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

From Middle English maten (“to overpower”), from Old French mater (“to kill”), from Vulgar Latin *mattō, of unclear origin.

Verb[edit]

mate (third-person singular simple present mates, present participle mating, simple past and past participle mated)

1. (obsolete) To confuse; to confound.

   • c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     I think you are all mated, or stark mad.

Etymology 4[edit]

See maté.

Noun[edit]

mate (plural mates)

2. Alternative spelling of maté, an aromatic tea-like drink prepared from the holly yerba maté (Ilex paraguariensis).
3. The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea

Anagrams[edit]

• AEMT, ATEM, Atem, META, Meta, Tame, Team, Tema, meat, meta, meta-, tame, team

Asturian[edit]

Verb[edit]

mate

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of matar

Cebuano[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Short for English checkmate, from Middle English chekmat, from Old French eschec mat, from Arabic شَاهُ مَاتَ‎ (šāhu māta), from Persian شاه مات‎ (šâh mât, “the king [is] amazed”).

Pronunciation[edit]

• Hyphenation: ma‧te

Noun[edit]

mate

1. (chess) a checkmate

Verb[edit]

mate

1. (chess) to checkmate; to put the king of an opponent into checkmate

Interjection[edit]

mate

1. (chess) checkmate

Quotations[edit]

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mate.

Czech[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): [ˈmatɛ]

Verb[edit]

mate

1. third-person singular present of mást

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

A more archaic form of maat (“measure”), in petrified use in various contexts and expressions. From Middle Dutch mate, from Old Dutch *māta, from Proto-Germanic *mētō.

Pronunciation[edit]

• Hyphenation: ma‧te

Noun[edit]

mate f (plural maten, diminutive maatje n)

1. A measure, degree: quantity or intensity of something abstract

   In welke mate voel je je verantwoordelijk voor het ongeluk?

   To what degree do you feel responsible for the accident?

See also[edit]

• maat

Verb[edit]

mate

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of meten

Fijian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Central-Pacific *mate, from Proto-Oceanic *mate, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(m-)atay, from Proto-Austronesian *(m-)aCay.

Adjective[edit]

mate

1. dead (no longer alive)

Noun[edit]

mate

1. death

French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /mat/

Adjective[edit]

mate

1. feminine singular of mat

Verb[edit]

mate

1. inflection of mater:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams[edit]

• méat

Galician[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from French mat, mate.

Adjective[edit]

mate m or f (plural mates)

1. matte (not reflective of light)

Etymology 2[edit]

From xaque mate (“checkmate”), from Arabic شَاه مَاتَ‎ (šāh māta), from Persian شاه مات‎ (šâh mât, “the king [is] dead”).

Noun[edit]

mate m (plural mates)

1. (chess) mate, checkmate

   Synonym: xaque mate

Derived terms[edit]

• mate do louco
• mate do pastor

Etymology 3[edit]

Borrowed from Quechua mati.

Noun[edit]

mate m (plural mates)

2. maté (the drink prepared from yerba maté (Ilex paraguariensis)
3. Ilex paraguariensis, a plant used to make maté

   Synonym: herba mate

Derived terms[edit]

• herba mate

Etymology 4[edit]

From matar (“kill”).

Noun[edit]

mate m (plural mates)

1. (basketball) dunk (the act of dunking, particularly in basketball)

Verb[edit]

mate

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of matar

Gothic[edit]

Romanization[edit]

matē

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐌴

Italian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: mà‧te

Etymology 1[edit]

From Latin māter, from Proto-Italic *mātēr, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.

Noun[edit]

mate m (plural mati)

1. (obsolete) mother

   Synonym: madre

See also[edit]

• pate

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from Quechua mati (“gourd”).

Alternative forms[edit]

• matè (influenced from French maté)

Noun[edit]

mate m (invariable)

1. yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis)
2. maté (beverage)

Further reading[edit]

• mate¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana
• mate² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams[edit]

• Meta, meta, meta-, metà, team, tema

Japanese[edit]

Romanization[edit]

mate

1. Rōmaji transcription of まて

Laboya[edit]

Verb[edit]

mate

1. to die

Derived terms[edit]

• haʼmate (“to kill”)

References[edit]

• Rina, A. Dj.; Kabba, John Lado B. (2011), “mate”, in Kamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page 66

Maori[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Polynesian *mate, from Proto-Oceanic *mate, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(m-)atay, from Proto-Austronesian *(m-)aCay.

Noun[edit]

mate

1. death
2. sickness, illness, disease
3. misfortune, calamity, defect
4. desire, need, want

Derived terms[edit]

Verb[edit]

mate

1. (stative) to be dead, deceased, killed
2. (stative) to be sick, ill, unwell, diseased
3. (stative) to be defeated, conquered, beaten, overcome
4. (stative) to be in want of, deeply in love

Further reading[edit]

• “mate” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori-English, English-Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Mapudungun[edit]

Noun[edit]

mate (Raguileo spelling)

1. The drink maté, prepared of yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis).

See also[edit]

• matetun

References[edit]

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle Low German mate, from Old Saxon gimato, from Proto-West Germanic *gamatjō. Doublet of mette.

Alternative forms[edit]

• mat, mayte

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaːt(ə)/

Noun[edit]

mate (plural mates)

1. mate (companion, comrade)
2. mate (shipmate)
3. (rare) person, human

Descendants[edit]

• English: mate
• Scots: mate

References[edit]

• “māte, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2[edit]

Interjection[edit]

mate

1. Alternative form of mat (“checkmate”)

Noun[edit]

mate

1. Alternative form of mat (“checkmate”)

Adjective[edit]

mate

1. Alternative form of mat (“checkmate”)

Etymology 3[edit]

Adjective[edit]

mate

1. Alternative form of mat (“tired”)
2. inflection of mat:
   1. weak singular
   2. strong/weak plural

Etymology 4[edit]

Verb[edit]

mate

1. Alternative form of maten (“to checkmate”)

Etymology 5[edit]

Verb[edit]

mate

1. Alternative form of maten (“to overpower”)

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From mat.

Verb[edit]

mate (imperative mat, present tense mater, passive mates, simple past and past participle mata or matet, present participle matende)

1. to feed

Synonyms[edit]

• fôre (about animals)

[edit]

• mat (noun)

References[edit]

• “mate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Pali[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Adjective[edit]

mate

1. inflection of mata (“dead; thought”):
   1. masculine/neuter locative singular
   2. masculine accusative plural
   3. feminine vocative singular

Noun[edit]

mate

1. locative singular of mata (“opinion”)

Polish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Spanish mate, from Quechua mati.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.tɛ/
• Rhymes: -atɛ
• Syllabification: ma‧te
• Homophone: matę

Noun[edit]

mate f (indeclinable)

1. maté, yerba mate (shrub that produces the beverage maté)

   Synonym: yerba mate

2. maté, yerba mate (beverage maté)

   Synonym: yerba mate

Further reading[edit]

• mate in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mate in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -at͡ʃi, (Portugal) -atɨ
• Hyphenation: ma‧te

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from Spanish mate, from Quechua mati.

Noun[edit]

mate m (uncountable)

1. (South Brazil) maté (Ilex paraguariensis) (a shrub native to southern South America)

   Synonyms: erva mate, erva

2. (South Brazil) maté (a beverage prepared from the leaves of this plant)

   Synonym: chimarrão

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb[edit]

mate

1. inflection of matar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Rapa Nui[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Polynesian *mate, from Proto-Oceanic *mate, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(m-)atay, from Proto-Austronesian *(m-)aCay.

Adjective[edit]

mate

1. dead (no longer alive)

Verb[edit]

mate

1. to die

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Clipping of matematică.

Noun[edit]

mate f (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) maths

Shona[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Bantu *màtáì.

Noun[edit]

maté class 6

1. saliva (liquid secreted into the mouth)

Spanish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmate/ [ˈma.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ate
• Syllabification: ma‧te

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from French mat, mate.

Adjective[edit]

mate (plural mates)

1. matte (not reflective of light)

Etymology 2[edit]

From jaque mate (“checkmate”), from Arabic شَاه مَاتَ‎ (šāh māta), from Persian شاه مات‎ (šâh mât, “the king [is] dead”).

Noun[edit]

mate m (plural mates)

1. (chess) mate, checkmate

   Synonym: jaque mate

2. (colloquial, El Salvador) a hand gesture

Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

Borrowed from Quechua mati.

Noun[edit]

mate m (plural mates)

2. maté (the drink prepared from yerba maté (Ilex paraguariensis))
3. a hollow gourd or cup in which maté is traditionally served

   Synonym: porongo

4. Ilex paraguariensis, a plant used to make maté

   Synonyms: yerba mate, hierba mate

5. (colloquial, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay) head (top part of the body)

   Synonym: cabeza

Derived terms[edit]

• matear
• mateína
• yerba mate, hierba mate

Descendants[edit]

• → English: maté, mate
• → French: maté
• → Portuguese: mate

Etymology 4[edit]

Possibly from sense 1 in the sense of «dull» or «not reflective of light.»

Adjective[edit]

mate (plural mates)

1. (South America) tan, tanned (skin colour)

Etymology 5[edit]

Clipping of matemática.

Noun[edit]

mate f (plural mates)

1. (colloquial) math / maths

   Synonym: mates

Etymology 6[edit]

From matar (“kill”).

Noun[edit]

mate m (plural mates)

1. (basketball) dunk, slam dunk (the act of dunking: put the ball directly downward through the hoop while grabbing onto the rim with power)

   Synonyms: clavada, volcada, retacada, hundida, donqueo

Verb[edit]

mate

1. inflection of matar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading[edit]

• “mate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

Swahili[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Bantu *màtáì.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

mate (ma class, plural only)

1. saliva (liquid secreted into the mouth)

Tagalog[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Spanish mate.

Pronunciation[edit]

• Hyphenation: ma‧te
• IPA^(key): /ˈmate/, [ˈma.te]

Noun[edit]

mate (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜆᜒ)

1. (chess) checkmate

Tahitian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Polynesian *mate, from Proto-Oceanic *mate, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(m-)atay, from Proto-Austronesian *(m-)aCay.

Adjective[edit]

mate

1. dead (no longer alive)

Verb[edit]

mate

1. to die

Tetum[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *mate, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(m-)atay, from Proto-Austronesian *(m-)aCay.

Adjective[edit]

mate

1. dead (no longer alive)

Noun[edit]

mate

1. death

Verb[edit]

mate

1. to die

Tokelauan[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.te/
• Hyphenation: ma‧te

Etymology 1[edit]

From Proto-Polynesian *mate. Cognates include Hawaiian make and Samoan mate.

Verb[edit]

mate (plural mamate)

1. (intransitive) to die
2. (stative) to be paralysed
3. (intransitive, of fire) to go out
4. (intransitive, of players) to go out
5. (intransitive, of engines) to stop

Usage notes[edit]

• In the sense «to die», mate is normaly used to refer to plants and animals.
• When used to refer to a human, mate may be perceived as either disrespectful or humorous.

Etymology 2[edit]

From Proto-Polynesian *mate. Cognates include Tongan mate and Samoan mate.

Noun[edit]

mate

1. guess

Verb[edit]

mate

1. (transitive) to guess

Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

Noun[edit]

mate

1. (to a male) sororal nephew

References[edit]

• R. Simona, editor (1986) Tokelau Dictionary‎^[1], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 229

Tongan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Polynesian *mate.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ma.te/

Noun[edit]

mate

1. death
2. the dead

Adjective[edit]

mate

1. dead

Uneapa[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Oceanic *mate, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(m-)atay, from Proto-Austronesian *aCay.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /mate/

Verb[edit]

mate

1. to die

Further reading[edit]

• Ross, Malcolm D. (2016), Andrew Pawley, editor, The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: Volume 5, People: body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, →OCLC; republished as Meredith Osmond, editor,, (please provide a date or year)

мате, мат, помощник, приятель, товарищ, спариваться, спаривать, сопрягать

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Словосочетания

a mitten wanting its mate — варежка, которой нужна пара  
boatswain’s mate — помощник боцмана  
machinist’s mate — помощник машиниста  
dove and its mate — голубь со своей голубкой  
mate to a glove — перчатка, парная другой перчатке  
chamber mate — сосед по комнате  
captain’s mate — помощник капитана  
first mate — первый помощник капитана  
second mate — второй помощник капитана  
fool’s mate — шахм. мат со второго хода, детский мат  
mate up parts — сопрягать детали  

Примеры с переводом

Примеры, ожидающие перевода

Возможные однокоренные слова

inmate  — заключенный, обитатель, жилец, больной
mater  — мать
mathematical  — математический
mature  — зрелый, развитой, выдержанный, созревший, созреть, созревать, взрослеть, вылежаться
mating  — спаривание, стыковка, сопряженный, парный
mateless  — одинокий, без товарища, без пары

Формы слова

verb
I/you/we/they: mate
he/she/it: mates
ing ф. (present participle): mating
2-я ф. (past tense): mated
3-я ф. (past participle): mated

noun
ед. ч.(singular): mate
мн. ч.(plural): mates

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Look up mate or Mate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Mate may refer to:

Science[edit]

• Mate, one of a pair of animals involved in:
  • Mate choice, intersexual selection
  • Mating
• Multi-antimicrobial extrusion protein, or MATE, an efflux transporter family of proteins

Person or title[edit]

• Friendship
  • Mateship
• Mate (naval officer)
  • Chief mate, also known as first mate
  • Second mate
  • Third mate
• Third (curling), also known as a vice, vice-skip, or mate, the team member who delivers the second-to-last pair of a team’s stones in an end

People[edit]

Given names[edit]

• Mate (given name)
• Máté (given name)

Surname[edit]

• Máté (surname)

Beverages[edit]

• Mate (drink) (/ˈmɑːte/), made from the yerba mate plant
  • Mate, a traditional South American container carved from a dried calabash
• Mate de coca, or coca tea

Technology[edit]

• MATE (software) (/ˈmɑːteɪ/) stylised in capitals, a fork of GNOME 2 (desktop shell for desktop hardware)
• Mate or mating condition, a synonym for constraints used in computer-aided design (CAD)
• Huawei Mate series, a smartphone series by the Chinese company Huawei

Other uses[edit]

• Mate (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
• Mate (2019 film), a South Korean film
• Mate (2021 film), an Australian short film
• Mahte or Māte, epithet for goddesses in Latvian mythology
• «Mate», shortened from checkmate, a winning/losing situation in chess

Acronyms[edit]

• Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science, or MATES, a high school in Manahawkin, New Jersey

See also[edit]

• Inmate, a prisoner
• Mates, a surname
• Matte (disambiguation)
• Running mate, a fellow candidate for the same party in one election
• All pages with titles containing Mate
• All pages with titles containing Mating