Hamate vs Amate - What's the difference?
hamate | amate |
Paper produced from the bark of adult Ficus trees.
An art form based on Mexican bark painting from the Otomi culture.
(label) To dishearten, dismay.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
* , I.i:
* 1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), XI, xii:
* , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.230:
* c.1815 , (John Keats), "To Chatterton":
(obsolete) To be a mate to; to match.
As nouns the difference between hamate and amate
is that hamate is the hamate bone while amate is paper produced from the bark of adult ficus trees.As an adjective hamate
is (anatomy) hooked at the tip.As a verb amate is
(label) to dishearten, dismay or amate can be (obsolete) to be a mate to; to match.amate
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) papel .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) amater, amatir.Verb
(amat)- The Silures, to amate the new general, rumoured the overthrow greater than was true.
- Shall I accuse the hidden cruell fate, / And mightie causes wrought in heauen aboue, / Or the blind God, that doth me thus amate , / For hoped loue to winne me certaine hate?
- Upon the walls the pagans old and young / Stood hush'd and still, amated and amazed.
- For the last, he will be much amazed, he will be much amated .
- Thou didst die / A half-blown flow'ret which cold blasts amate .
Etymology 3
.Verb
(amat)- (Spenser)