embate

Estonian

Verb

embate

1. second-person plural present indicative of embama

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽˈba.t͡ʃi/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩˈba.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽˈba.t͡ʃi/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩˈba.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽˈba.te/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩˈba.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ẽˈba.tɨ/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -at͡ʃi, (Portugal) -atɨ
• Hyphenation: em‧ba‧te

Etymology 1

Deverbal from embater.

Noun

embate m (plural embates)

1. collision; crash

   Synonym: colisão

2. (figuratively) conflict; clash

   Synonym: conflito

3. (figuratively, politics) opposition; resistance

   Synonym: oposição

   • 2015 December 3, Maria Lopes, Nuno Sá Lourenço, Sofia Rodrigues, “Costa anuncia 13 medidas no seu primeiro debate”, in Público:

     O segundo debate sobre um programa de Governo desta legislatura trouxe ontem ao Parlamento um primeiro-ministro municiado para o embate com uma mão cheia de medidas políticas.

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Etymology 2

Verb

embate

1. inflection of embater:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Noun

embate m (plural embates)

1. bashing, beating
2. (military) attack
3. (nautical) imbat (strong sea breeze in summer)

Further reading

• “embate”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 351