vate

See also: väte, våte, and -vate

Champenois

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vat/

Noun

vate f

1. alternative form of vaiche

Falam Chin

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *waa, from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *waʔ.

Pronunciation

• (Sun Thla) IPA^(key): [vààtéé]

Noun

vate

1. bird

References

• Amanda Bohnert, Emily Hanink, Em Em, Kelly Berkson (2026), “Sun Thla Falam Chin Swadesh List”, in Indiana Working Papers in South Asian Languages and Cultures‎^[1], volume 4, number 1

French

Etymology

From Latin vātēs (“prophet, poet”). Compare Italian vate, Spanish vate, Portuguese vate, Catalan vate, English vates. Doublet of ovate and vaticiner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vat/

Noun

vate m (plural vates)

1. (history) vates, especially a Gaulish priest

   Synonym: ovate

Anagrams

• avet, EVAT, Tave, Teva, Téva

Italian

Etymology

From Latin vātēs (“prophet, poet”). Compare English vates.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈva.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: và‧te

Noun

vate m (plural vati)

1. (literary) prophet, fortune-teller

   Synonyms: divinatore, indovino, profeta

2. (figurative) an inspired or prophetic poet or other writer; vates
   • 2003, Antonio Tabucchi, chapter XIII, in Sostiene Pereira : una testimonianza [Pereira Declares], Rome: La biblioteca di Repubblica, published 1994, →ISBN, page 82:

     Fu un grande poeta Gabriele D'Annunzio, il cui vero nome per inciso era Rapagnetta? […] Innazitutto fu un vate. Amò il lusso, la mondanità, la magniloquenza, l'azione.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “vate”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

Ladino

Etymology

va +‎ te

Interjection

vate (Hebrew spelling ב׳אטי)

1. get out of here!

   Synonym: sal de aki

Latin

Noun

vāte

1. ablative singular of vātēs

Latvian

Noun

vate f (5th declension)

1. cotton wool

Declension

Declension of vate (5th)

	singular	plural
nominative	vate	—
genitive	vates	—
dative	vatei	—
accusative	vati	—
instrumental	vati	—
locative	vatē	—
vocative	vate	—

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀯𑀢𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• वते (Devanagari script)
• ৰতে (Bengali script)
• වතෙ (Sinhalese script)
• ဝတေ (Burmese script)
• วเต or วะเต (Thai script)
• ᩅᨲᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ວເຕ or ວະເຕ (Lao script)
• វតេ (Khmer script)
• 𑅇𑄖𑄬 (Chakma script)

Noun

vate

1. inflection of vata (“religious duty”):
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin vātēs.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈva.t͡ʃi/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈva.tɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈva.tɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈba.tɨ/

• Hyphenation: va‧te

Noun

vate m or f by sense (plural vates)

1. vates (divinely inspired poet)

Further reading

• “vate”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “vate”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin vātēs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbate/ [ˈba.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ate
• Syllabification: va‧te
• Homophone: bate

Noun

vate m or f by sense (plural vates)

1. prophetic poet, vates

   Synonym: poeta

Further reading

• “vate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Talysh

Etymology

Cognate to Zazaki vetene (“to bring out”). Almost out of use nowadays, but present in derived prefixed verbs evate, pevate.

Verb

vate

1. (obsolete, very rare) to bring out, to take out

   Synonym: bekarde

2. to skin, to flay

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vaat'ëk.

Noun

vate

1. broadcloth

Declension

Inflection of vate (inflection type 36/kaste)
nominative sing.	vate
genitive sing.	vatken
partitive sing.	vatet
partitive plur.	vatkid
	singular	plural
nominative	vate	vatked
accusative	vatken	vatked
genitive	vatken	vatkiden
partitive	vatet	vatkid
essive-instructive	vatken	vatkin
translative	vatkeks	vatkikš
inessive	vatkes	vatkiš
elative	vatkespäi	vatkišpäi
illative	vatkehe	vatkihe
adessive	vatkel	vatkil
ablative	vatkelpäi	vatkilpäi
allative	vatkele	vatkile
abessive	vatketa	vatkita
comitative	vatkenke	vatkidenke
prolative	vatetme	vatkidme
approximative I	vatkenno	vatkidenno
approximative II	vatkennoks	vatkidennoks
egressive	vatkennopäi	vatkidennopäi
terminative I	vatkehesai	vatkihesai
terminative II	vatkelesai	vatkilesai
terminative III	vatkessai	—
additive I	vatkehepäi	vatkihepäi
additive II	vatkelepäi	vatkilepäi

Volapük

Noun

vate

1. dative singular of vat