Amateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /əˈmɑːteɪ/
• (米国発音) IPA: /əˈmɑteɪ/

名詞

amate (plural amates)

1. Paper produced from the bark of adult Ficus trees.
2. An art form based on Mexican bark painting from the Otomi culture.

語源 2

From Old French amater, amatir.

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /əˈmeɪt/
• 韻: -eɪt

動詞

amate (third-person singular simple present amates, present participle amating, simple past and past participle amated)

1. (obsolete) To dishearten, dismay.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Shall I accuse the hidden cruell fate, / And mightie causes wrought in heauen aboue, / Or the blind God, that doth me thus amate, / For hoped loue to winne me certaine hate?

   • 1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), Jerusalem Delivered, Tasso, XI, xii:

     Upon the walls the pagans old and young / Stood hush'd and still, amated and amazed.

   • 1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC:

     The Silures, to amate the new general, rumoured the overthrow greater than was true.

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
     , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.230:

     For the last […], he will be much amazed, he will be much amated.

   • c. 1815, John Keats, To Chatterton:

     Thou didst die / A half-blown flow'ret which cold blasts amate.

語源 3

From a- +‎ mate.

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /əˈmeɪt/
• 韻: -eɪt

動詞

amate (third-person singular simple present amates, present participle amating, simple past and past participle amated)

1. (obsolete) To be a mate to; to match.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     More lucklesse disadventures did amate

アナグラム

• A team, A-team

動詞

amāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of amō

Participle

amāte

1. vocative masculine singular of amātus

名詞

amāte

1. vocative singular of amātus