achate

achate

See also: Achate and achaté

English

Etymology 1

From Old French achat (“purchase”). See cates.

Noun

achate (plural achates)

1. (obsolete) Purchase; bargaining.
2. (in the plural, obsolete) Purchases; provisions bought for a household, cates.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto IX:

     The kitchin Clerke, that hight Digestion, / Did order all th’Achates in seemely wise, / And set them forth, as well he could deuise.

Etymology 2

From Middle English achate, agaten, from Old French acate, agate.

Noun

achate (plural achates)

1. (obsolete) An agate.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Evelyn to this entry?)

   • Francis Bacon

     These following bodies do not draw: smaragd, achates, corneolus, pearl, jaspis, chalcedonius, alabaster, porphyry, coral, marble, touchstone, haematites, or bloodstone […]

Anagrams

• chaeta, chæta

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Latin

Noun

achatē

1. ablative singular of achatēs
2. vocative singular of achatēs

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Portuguese

Verb

achate

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of achatar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of achatar
3. first-person singular imperative of achatar
4. third-person singular imperative of achatar

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Spanish

Verb

achate

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of achatar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of achatar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of achatar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of achatar.