sate

• sade (dialectal)

• IPA^(key): /seɪt/

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• Rhymes: -eɪt

Alteration (after words such as satiate and satisfy) of earlier sade (“to weary, satiate, satisfy”), from Middle English saden (“to weary, satisfy, become wearied or satiated”), from Old English sadian (“to satisfy, satiate, fill, be sated, become wearied”), from Proto-West Germanic *sadōn (“to satiate, become satisfied”), from Proto-Germanic *sadaz (“sated”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- (“to satiate, be satisfied”). Cognate with Middle Low German saden, Middle High German saten (“to saturate, satisfy, satiate”), Icelandic seðja (“to satisfy”). Doublet of sad.

sate (third-person singular simple present sates, present participle sating, simple past and past participle sated)

1. To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.

   Synonyms: satiate, fill up

   At last he stopped, his hunger and thirst sated.

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 12, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     crowds of wanderers sated with the business and pleasure of great cities

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     Indeed his rendering is so excellent an example of mediæval learning and latinity that, even at the risk of sating the learned reader with too many antiquities, I have made up my mind to give it in fac-simile, together with an expanded version for the benefit of those who find the contractions troublesome.

   • [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:

     And still the hours passed, and at last I knew by the glimmer of light in the tomb above that the sun had risen again, and a maddening thirst had hold of me. And then I thought of all the barrels piled up in the vault and of the liquor that they held; and stuck not because 'twas spirit, for I would scarce have paused to sate that thirst even with molten lead.

Used interchangeably with, though less common than, satiate.^[1]

• sated
• satedness
• sateless
• unsated
• unsating

• satiate
• satisfactory
• saturate
• surfeit

From Middle English sate, satte, from Old English sæt, first and third person singular preterite of sittan (“to sit”).

sate

2. (dated, poetic) simple past and past participle of sit
   • 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter VI, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume III (A Legend of Montrose), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 274:

     So saying, she sate down at a little distance upon the bench on which Allan M‘Aulay was placed, and tuning her clairshach, a small harp, about thirty inches in height, she accompanied it with her voice.

   • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 24–25:

     […] and I am old enough to remember how often I have seen the beautiful Duchess of Devonshire, about eight in the morning (when I was at Bath in 91 or 92), returning from the parade, where she had sate up the live-long night with her sister, Lady Duncannon; it can therefore be no disgrace to appear as if you felt for your daughter.

   • 1896, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, “[Poem] LXII”, in A Shropshire Lad, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, The Bodley Head, published 1906, →OCLC, page 94:

     […] And easy, smiling, seasoned sound, / Sate the king when healths went round.

From Malay sate (“satay”).

sate

1. satay

• AEST, ESTA, East, SEAT, Seat, TEAs, east, eats, etas, seat, seta, tase, teas

From Malay sate (“satay”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈsate]
• Hyphenation: sa‧té

sate (first-person possessive sateku, second-person possessive satemu, third-person possessive satenya)

1. (colloquial) satay (dish)

• satai

• “sate” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

sate

1. Rōmaji transcription of さて
2. Rōmaji transcription of サテ

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ca, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *zə. Cognates include Chinese 司 (sī) (and probably Chinese 作 (zuò)) and Mru caŋ.

• (Khimi Chin) sauteh

• IPA^(key): /sʰa˧.te˧/

sate

1. (transitive) to do
2. (transitive) to make
3. (transitive) to build
4. (transitive) to plant
5. (transitive) to serve
6. (transitive) to prepare, arrange

• IPA^(key): /sʰa˥.te˧/

sate

1. (transitive) to lengthen

• K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin‎^[1], Payap University, pages 88-89

• sesate

Borrowed from Javanese saté, from Tamil சதை (catai, “flesh”).

• IPA^(key): /sate/
• Rhymes: -te, -e

sate (Jawi spelling ساتي, plural sate-sate, informal 1st possessive sateku, 2nd possessive satemu, 3rd possessive satenya)

1. satay (dish)

• “sate” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• sat (Föhr-Amrum)
• set (Sylt)

From Proto-Germanic *sitjaną.

• (Mooring) IPA^(key): [ˈsatʰə]

sate

1. (Mooring) to sit

From satan.

sate c

1. (colloquial) someone pitiable (arousing (contemptous) pity)

   stackars lilla sate

   poor little bastard

2. (colloquial) a bastard (disagreeable or tricky person)

   Nån rik sate tänker köpa allt och köra ut oss

   Some rich bastard is planning to buy everything and run us out

   en slug sate

   a sly bastard

• sate in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• sate in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sate in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsateʔ/ [ˈsaː.t̪ɛʔ]
• Rhymes: -ateʔ
• Syllabification: sa‧te

satè (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜆᜒ)

1. cord; strong string (used in spinning tops, etc.)

• pisi
• hapin
• kalawas
• balakas

Borrowed from Malay sate, from Tamil சதை (catai, “flesh”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsate/ [ˈsaː.t̪ɛ]
• Rhymes: -ate
• Syllabification: sa‧te

sate (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜆᜒ)

1. Alternative form of satay

• atse