prate

From Middle English praten; related to Dutch praten (“to talk, chat”), Low German praten, Danish prate, Swedish prata (“to talk, prate”), Faroese práta (“to talk, gossip”), Icelandic prata; all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *prattuz (“idle or boastful talk, deceit”), from Proto-Indo-European *brodno- (“to wander, rove”). Cognate with Polish bredzić (“to rave, jabber”), Latvian bradāt (“to talk nonsense”).

• Rhymes: -eɪt

prate (countable and uncountable, plural prates)

1. Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity.

prate (third-person singular simple present prates, present participle prating, simple past and past participle prated)

1. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly.
   • Dryden

     What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate, / When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate!

• (speak (about unimportant matters)): blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prattle, twaddle

• (etymology) prate, in Compact Oxford English Dictionary.
• (etymolohy) prate, in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language.

• Peart, Petra, apert, apter, parte, pater, peart, petar, petra, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, trape, treap

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prate

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of praten

• pater

• IPA^(key): /prɑːtɛ/

prate (imperative prat, present tense prater, passive prates, simple past and past participle prata or pratet, present participle pratende)

1. to chat (om / about)

• pratsom

• “prate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpraːtə/

prate

1. to talk

• “prate”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011