FromMiddle Englishachate,agaten, fromOld Frenchacate,agate.

• IPA^(key): /ˈæk.ət/

• Audio(Southern England):

  (file)

achate (pluralachates)

1. (obsolete) Anagate.
   • 1643 November 22 (Gregorian calendar),John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for November 12 1643]”, inWilliam Bray, editor,Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London:Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published1819,→OCLC:

     Two vasas of berill , 2 ofachate , whereof one is esteemed for its bignesse , colour , and carving imboss'd

   • 1627 (indicated as1626),Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, inSylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […];[p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […],→OCLC:

     These following bodies do not draw: smaragd,achates, corneolus, pearl, jaspis, chalcedonius, alabaster, porphyry, coral, marble, touchstone, haematites, or bloodstone[…]

• James A. H. Murrayet al., editors (1884–1928), “Achate”, inA New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London:Clarendon Press,→OCLC.

• chaeta,chæta

achātē

1. ablative/vocativesingular ofachātēs

FromOld Frenchachat(“purchase”). Seecates.

achate (pluralachates)

1. Purchase;bargaining.
2. Purchases;provisions bought for a household,cates.
   • 1590,Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, inThe Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] forWilliam Ponsonbie,→OCLC:

     The kitchin Clerke, that hight Digestion, / Did order all th’Achates in seemely wise, / And set them forth, as well he could deuise.

achate

1. inflection ofachatar:
   1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
   2. third-personsingularimperative

achate

1. inflection ofachatar:
   1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
   2. third-personsingularimperative

• English terms derived from Middle English
• English terms derived from Old French
• English 2-syllable words
• English terms with IPA pronunciation
• English terms with audio pronunciation
• English lemmas
• English nouns
• English countable nouns
• English terms with obsolete senses
• English terms with quotations
• Latin non-lemma forms
• Latin noun forms
• Middle English terms derived from Old French
• Middle English lemmas
• Middle English nouns
• Portuguese non-lemma forms
• Portuguese verb forms
• Spanish non-lemma forms
• Spanish verb forms

• Pages with entries
• Pages with 5 entries