ate

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /eɪt/    美 /eɪt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An elder sister Philippines
  2. A respectful title or form of address for an older woman. Philippines
动词 v.
  1. simple past of eat form-of,past
  2. past participle of eat colloquial,form-of,nonstandard,participle,past
    — I have a very good appetite, have ate some excellent melons, and they have served me up some quails, the fattest and tenderest I have ever ate.

词形变化

et alternative,informal,pronunciation-spelling ates plural et alternative,informal,pronunciation-spelling

词源

词源 1
Probably a remodelling of earlier eat by analogy with other strong verbs such as break:†brake, give:gave, speak:†spake; compare the same process in rare Middle English at (“ate”) besides more usual et.
However, the pronunciation /ɛt/ likely continues Middle English et, from Old English ǣt, from Proto-West Germanic *āt, from Proto-Germanic *ēt, with shortening as in e.g. thread.
词源 2
Borrowed from Tagalog ate (“elder sister”), from Hokkien 阿姊 (á-ché, “eldest sister”).
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