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maté

French, noun

maté is spelled M-A-T-É (4 letters) and appears 3.7 times per million words in written French, the 13,759th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Maté is a French masculine noun meaning “maté” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of mater. Without its accent, mate is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. With an accent, mâté is a different word: “past participle of mâter”. With an accent, mâte is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Arbuste de l’Amérique méridionale, du genre houx, dont les feuilles grillées légèrement, puis concassées et…”.

What does maté mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinematé

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of mater

adjective

as mate
  1. 1

    femininefeminine singular of mat

verb

as mate
  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

verb

as mâté
  1. 1

    past participle of mâter

verb

as mâte
  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Endroit, dans Paris, où se tenait le conseil de filous.

noun: 1. Arbuste de l’Amérique méridionale, du genre houx, dont les feuilles grillées légèrement, puis concassées et réduites en poudre, donnent par leur infusion dans l’eau bouillante une boisson analogue au thé de Chine appelée thé du Paraguay ou maté. 2. Infusion des feuilles séchées de cette plante.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of maté

  • matés plural
  • matée feminine
  • matées feminine plural
  • mâtée feminine
  • mâtés masculine plural
  • mâtées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to maté

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is maté in French?

maté appears 3.7 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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