achate

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

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.

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

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 […]

• chaeta, chæta

achatē

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

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

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.