mateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English mate, a borrowing from Middle Low German mate (“messmate”) (replacing Middle English mette (“table companion, mate, partner”), from 古期英語 ġemetta (“sharer of food, table-guest”)), derived from Proto-Germanic *gamatjô, itself from *ga- (“together”) (related to German かつ Dutch ge-) + *matjô (from *matiz (“food”)), related to 古期英語 mete (“food”)). From the same Middle Low German source stems German Low German Maat (“journeyman, companion”), German Maat (“naval non-commissioned officer”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Moat (“friend, buddy, comrade, mate”), Dutch maat (“mate, partner, colleague, friend”). More at 古期英語 ġe-, English co-, English meat. Doublet of maat.

名詞

mate (複数形 mates)

1. A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.

   Synonyms: fellow, (poetic, 古風な用法) fere

   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 152:

     A "mate" was a "mate" - share and share alike, no matter how bad might be the times, or how long a spell of ill luck had attended them.

2. (especially of a non-human animal) A breeding partner.
3. (colloquial, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, sometimes elsewhere in the 通例) A friend, usually of the same sex.

   Synonyms: friend, buddy; see also Thesaurus:friend

   I'm going to the pub with a few mates.

   He's my best mate.

4. (colloquial, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, sometimes elsewhere in the 通例) Friendly term of address to a stranger, usually male, of similar age.

   Synonym: buddy

   Excuse me, mate, have you got the time?

5. (nautical) In naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer or his subordinate (e.g. Boatswain's Mate, Gunner's Mate, Sailmaker's Mate, etc).
6. (nautical) A ship's officer, subordinate to the master on a commercial ship.
7. (nautical) A first mate.
8. A technical assistant in certain trades (e.g. gasfitter's mate, plumber's mate); sometimes an apprentice.
9. The other member of a matched pair of objects.

   I found one of the socks I wanted to wear, but I couldn't find its mate.

10. A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

      Ye knew me once no mate / For you; there sitting where you durst not soar.

派生語

動詞

mate (三人称単数 現在形 mates, 現在分詞 mating, 過去形および過去分詞形 mated)

1. (intransitive) To match, fit together without space between.

   Synonyms: match, couple, pair

   The pieces of the puzzle mate perfectly.

2. (intransitive) To copulate.

   Synonyms: couple; see also Thesaurus:copulate

3. (intransitive) To pair in order to raise offspring.
4. (transitive) To arrange in matched pairs.
5. (transitive) To introduce (animals) together for the purpose of breeding.
6. (transitive, of an animal) To copulate with.
7. (transitive) To marry; to match (a person).
   • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     If she be mated with an equal husband.

8. (transitive, obsolete) To match oneself against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
   • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Death”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:

     There is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death.

   • 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     I, […] in the way of loyalty and truth, […] / Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be.

9. (transitive) To fit (objects) together without space between.
10. (intransitive) To come together as companions, comrades, partners, etc.
    • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 152:

      Indeed, some cases of devotion that were met with were quite touching; and very often to all appearances the pairs were not always mated from the same class of society.

11. (transitive, aerospace) To move (a space shuttle orbiter) onto the back of an aircraft that can carry it.

    Antonym: demate

派生語

• mating

語源 2

From Middle English verb maten, from Middle French mater, from Old French noun mat (“checkmate”), from Persian شاه مات‎ (šâh mât).

名詞

mate (複数形 mates)

1. (chess) Clipping of checkmate.

動詞

mate (三人称単数 現在形 mates, 現在分詞 mating, 過去形および過去分詞形 mated)

1. (chess) Clipping of checkmate.

派生語

語源 3

From Middle English maten (“to overpower”), from Old French mater (“to kill”), from Vulgar Latin *mattō, of unclear origin.

動詞

mate (三人称単数 現在形 mates, 現在分詞 mating, 過去形および過去分詞形 mated)

1. (obsolete) To confuse; to confound.
   • c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     I think you are all mated, or stark mad.

語源 4

See maté.

名詞

mate (複数形 mates)

2. Alternative spelling of maté, an aromatic tea-like drink prepared from the holly yerba maté (Ilex paraguariensis).
3. The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea

アナグラム

• AEMT, ATEM, Atem, META, Meta, Tame, Team, Tema, meat, meta, meta-, tame, team

接尾辞

-mate

1. Used to form nouns having the sense of "a comrade or fellow with whom what is denoted by the noun is shared".

   classmate, schoolmate

Derived terns