sate

See also: säte and saté

English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /seɪt/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪt

Etymology 1

From earlier sade (“to weary, satiate, satisfy”), from Middle English saden (“to weary, satisfy, become wearied or satiated”), from Old English sadian (“to satisfy, satiate, fill, be sated, become wearied”), from Proto-Germanic *sadōną (“to satiate, become satisfied”), from Proto-Germanic *sadaz (“sated”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- (“to satiate, be satisfied”). Cognate with Middle Low German saden, Middle High German saten (“to saturate, satisfy, satiate”), Icelandic seðja (“to satisfy”). Cognate with sad.

Verb

sate (third-person singular simple present sates, present participle sating, simple past and past participle sated)

  1. To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.
    Synonyms: satiate, fill up
    At last he stopped, his hunger and thirst sated.
    • Macaulay
      crowds of wanderers sated with the business and pleasure of great cities
    • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
      And still the hours passed, and at last I knew by the glimmer of light in the tomb above that the sun had risen again, and a maddening thirst had hold of me. And then I thought of all the barrels piled up in the vault and of the liquor that they held; and stuck not because 'twas spirit, for I would scarce have paused to sate that thirst even with molten lead.
Usage notes

Used interchangeably with, though less common than, satiate.[1]

Translations

References
  1. “Monthly Gleanings: November 2011: Sate versus satiated.”, OUPblog

Etymology 2

From Middle English, from Old English sæt, first and third person singular preterite of sittan (“to sit”).

Verb

sate

  1. (dated, poetic) simple past tense of sit
Quotations
  • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:sit.

Etymology 3

From Malay sate (“satay”).

Noun

sate

  1. satay

Anagrams

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay sate (“satay”).

Noun

sate (plural sate-sate, first-person possessive sateku, second-person possessive satemu, third-person possessive satenya)

  1. (colloquial) satay (dish)

Synonyms

Further reading

Japanese

Romanization

sate

  1. Rōmaji transcription of さて
  2. Rōmaji transcription of サテ

Malay

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sate/
  • Rhymes: -te, -e

Noun

sate

  1. satay (dish)

Descendants

North Frisian

Verb

sate

  1. (Mooring Dialect) to sit

Conjugation
Conjugation of sate
infinitive I sate
infinitive II tu saten
infinitive III än sat
past participle sin
imperative -
  present past
1st-person singular ik sat ik sätj
2nd-person singular dü satst dü sätjst
3rd-person singular hi/jü/et sat hi/jü/et sätj
1st-person dual wat sate wat sätjen
2nd-person dual jat sate jat sätjen
1st-person plural we sate we sätjen
2nd-person plural jam sate jam sätjen
3rd-person plural ja sate ja sätjen
  perfect pluperfect
1st-person singular ik hääw sin ik häi sin
2nd-person singular dü hääst sin dü häist sin
3rd-person singular hi/jü/et heet sin hi/jü/et häi sin
1st-person dual wat hääwe sin wat häin sin
2nd-person dual jat hääwe sin jat häin sin
1st-person plural we hääwe sin we häin sin
2nd-person plural jam hääwe sin jam häin sin
3rd-person plural ja hääwe sin ja häin sin
  future
1st-person singular ik wård sate
2nd-person singular dü wårst sate
3rd-person singular hi/jü/et wårt sate
1st-person dual wat wårde sate
2nd-person dual jat wårde sate
1st-person plural we wårde sate
2nd-person plural jam wårde sate
3rd-person plural ja wårde sate

Tagalog

Noun

satè

  1. cord or strong string (used in spinning tops, etc.)
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