tenate

English

Alternative forms

• tanate

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tenate, tanate, from a Nahuan language; cf. Classical Nahuatl tānahtli.

Noun

tenate (plural tenates)

1. A kind of deep cylindrical basket, usually made of woven palm, used in Mexico.
   • 1942, Maria Cristina Chambers, The Water-Carrier’s Secrets, Oxford University Press, page 150:

     She pretended not to hear him and busied herself opening her tenate—the basket without handles, made of matting—where she carried her clothes.

   • 1994, Sergio Galindo, translated by Carolyn Brushwood and John Brushwood, Otilia’s Body: A Novel, The University of Texas Press, translation of Otilia Rauda:

     “You know how I could be the most beautiful woman in the world?”
     “How?”
     “With a tenate basket over my head.”

   • 2016, Mario E. López-Gopar, Decolonizing Primary English Language Teaching, Multilingual Matters:

     He comes back to pick up the tenate full of tortillas and embarks on his daily journey.

Translations

Translations

• Amuzgo:

  Guerrero: tso̱o̱

  San Pedro Amuzgos: tsö

• Chatino:

  Tataltepec: tucua̱

  Western Highland: tukwan²

• Cuicatec:

  Tepeuxila: ti²yu¹, yꞌu⁴cu³

• Mixe:

  Coatlán: tujy

  Totontepec: to̱ꞌo̱

• Nahuatl:

  Classical: tānahtli

  Highland Puebla: ta̱naj

  Mecayapan: ta̱naj

  Northern Puebla: tanahtli

  Tetelcingo: tönajtli̱

• Popoloca:

  San Felipe Otlaltepec: xītū

  San Juan Atzingo: xīchꞌā

• Popoluca:

  Highland: ta̱najti

  Oluta: ta̱najti

  Sayula: ta̱najti

• Spanish: tenate, tanate, tompeate (es), tompiate
• Totonac:

  Highland: tānajtzi

  Papantla: pa̱tzaya

  Xicotepec de Juárez: tenate

• Triqui:

  Chicahuaxtla: yo²

• Zapotec:

  Guelavía: rub

  Isthmus: ruba

  Yatzachi: bchob

  Zoogocho: bchob

Anagrams

• teetan

Esperanto

Adverb

tenate

1. present adverbial passive participle of teni

Ido

Verb

tenate

1. adverbial present passive participle of tenar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teˈnate/ [t̪eˈna.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ate
• Syllabification: te‧na‧te

Noun

tenate m (plural tenates)

1. (Mexico) tenate

   Synonym: tompeate

Further reading

• “tenate”, 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
• “tenate”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010