embate
Estonian
Verb
embate
- second-person plural present indicative of embama
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽˈba.t͡ʃi/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩˈba.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽˈba.te/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩˈba.te/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ẽˈba.t(ɨ)/
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -at͡ʃi, (Portugal) -atɨ
- Hyphenation: em‧ba‧te
Etymology 1
Deverbal from embater.
Noun
embate m (plural embates)
- collision; crash
- Synonym: colisão
- (figuratively) conflict; clash
- Synonym: conflito
- (figuratively, politics) opposition; resistance
- 2015 December 3, Maria Lopes; Nuno Sá Lourenço; Sofia Rodrigues, “Costa anuncia 13 medidas no seu primeiro debate”, in Público:
- O segundo debate sobre um programa de Governo desta legislatura trouxe ontem ao Parlamento um primeiro-ministro municiado para o embate com uma mão cheia de medidas políticas.
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
- Synonym: oposição
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Verb
embate
- inflection of embater:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Spanish
Noun
embate m (plural embates)
- bashing, beating
- (military) attack
- (nautical) imbat (strong sea breeze in summer)
Further reading
- “embate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée; Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 351