nates
Americannoun
plural noun
Etymology
Origin of nates
1675–85; < Latin natēs, plural of natis; generally used in the plural; akin to Greek nôton the back
Example Sentences
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Orson Welles is both director and star of this amalgam of scenes from five of Shakespeare's history plays in which the Bard's "bombard" of a buffoon domi nates the stage.
From Time Magazine Archive
The aitch-bone was formerly the nache-bone, from Old Fr. nache, buttock, Vulgar Lat. *natica for nates.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
Natal, nā′tal, adj. pertaining to the nates or buttocks.—n.pl.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
My bad Latin you properly correct; but natales for nates was an inadvertency: I knew better.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
The redness extended rapidly downward until it covered the foot, and even the toes; but the extension upward was slight, not much above the nates, on which there was situated at the time a bed-sore.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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