petate
Cimbrian
Noun
petate ?
- (Tredici Comuni) potato
References
- Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Esperanto
Adverb
petate
- present adverbial passive participle of peti
Spanish
petate bedroll mat
Etymology
Borrowed from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *petlatl.
Noun
petate m (plural petates)
- Fibers obtained from the leaves of palm trees found in the Caribbean and Mesoamerica, (most commonly Leucothrinax morrisii and Thrinax radiata)
- a mat woven from petate, commonly used as a bedroll and for other purposes
- Synonym: estera
- (Mexico, Philippines) a rustic cot
Derived terms
- petatearse
- llamarada de petate
Related terms
- petaca
Verb
petate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of petar combined with te
Further reading
- “petate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014