cuate
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl cōātl. Compare with Spanish acuache.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cuate m or f by sense (plural cuates, feminine cuate or cuata, feminine plural cuates or cuatas) (Mexico)
Usage notes
[edit]- The Diccionario de la Real Academia Española (DRAE), 23rd edition, reports the meaning 'friend' in the Spanish of El Salvador, but it is either obsolete or very unusual in that country.
Descendants
[edit]- → Mecayapan Nahuatl: cua̱tej
Further reading
[edit]- “cuate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
Categories:
- Spanish terms borrowed from Classical Nahuatl
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- Spanish 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ate/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish nouns with multiple genders
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