ayate
Spanish
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl āyātl (“cloth or cloak made from maguey fiber”).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ate
- Syllabification: a‧ya‧te
Noun
[edit]ayate m (plural ayates)
- (Mexico) a cloth made from the fiber of the maguey plant, similar to henequen or sisal
- (historical) a cloak-like garment made from this cloth
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Carlos Montemayor et al. (2009) Diccionario del náhuatl en el español de México, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, page 30
Further reading
[edit]- “ayate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
Categories:
- Spanish terms borrowed from Classical Nahuatl
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- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/ate
- Rhymes:Spanish/ate/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
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- es:Clothing
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