nates
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈneɪtiːz/
- Rhymes: -eɪtiz
Noun
nates pl (plural only)
- (anatomy, medicine) The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.
- The buttocks.
- 1963, Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr Enderby
- Enderby watched her warily as she lay prone, having kicked the clothes off the bed, her nates silvered by the Roman moonlight to the likeness of a meringue.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 3:
- He sat cross-legged on a damask pillow and scrutinized the pale puckered nates with the air of an epicure examining a fly in his vichyssoise.
- 1963, Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr Enderby
- (zoology) The umbones of a bivalve shell.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈna.teːs/
Etymology 1
From natis (“rump, buttocks”).
Etymology 2
Inflected form of natō (“swim, float”).
References
- nates in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- nates in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- nates in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- nates in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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