metate
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See also: metáte
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish metate, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *metlatl.
Pronunciation
Noun
metate (plural metates)
- A flat stone with a slightly concave surface, used with another stone (a mano) for grinding maize or other grains.
- 1985, James A. Michener, chapter V, in Texas, page 326:
- Each evening, when he returned home, he found that María he prepared some new treat, for she was a most ingenious woman, capable of transforming the poorest materials into something delicious, and he grew to love the tortillas she made so patiently, kneeling before the stone metate as she beat the boiled corn into the gray-white mixture she later baked on the flat rocks.
Translations
flat stone for grinding grains
Adverb
metate
- present adverbial passive participle of meti
Participle
mētāte
Etymology
Borrowed from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *metlatl.
Pronunciation
Noun
metate m (plural metates)
- metate (a flat stone with a slightly concave surface, used with another stone (mano) for grinding maize or other grains)
Descendants
- → English: metate
See also
Further reading
- “metate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28
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