• n. 助手，大副；配偶；同事；配對物
• vt. 使配對；使一致；結伴
• vi. 交配；成配偶；緊密配合
• n. (Mate)人名；(日)蟶(姓)；(西、意、塞)馬特；(波黑)馬特；(羅、俄)馬泰

來自低地德語gemate,同桌吃飯的人，餐桌伙伴，來自Proto-Germanic*ga-maton,一起吃飯，來自*ga-,一起，詞源同com-,*maton,食物，詞源同meat.引申詞義伙伴，伴侶，以及動物交配等。

來自波斯語mat,死掉的，殺死，詞源同matador,checkmate.

mate

mate: [14] Mate ‘friend’ and mate the chess term are two distinct words. The former was borrowed from Middle Low German mate or gemate ‘companion’ (source also of Dutch maat), which goes back to a prehistoric West Germanic *gamaton. This was formed from the collective prefix *ga- and *mat- ‘measure’, which was also the source of English meat; so etymologically mate (like companion) is ‘someone you eat with or share your food with’.

The chess term mate comes from Old French mat ‘dead’. This was short for eschec mat (source of English checkmate), which comes from Persian shāh māt ‘the king is dead’. Persian māt ‘dead’ also contributed the verb matar ‘kill’ to Spanish, from which was derived matador [17], literally ‘killer’.
=> meat; mat, matador, matte

mate (n.1)

"associate, fellow, comrade," mid-14c., also "companion" (late 14c.), from Middle Low German mate, gemate "one eating at the same table, messmate," from Proto-Germanic *ga-maton "having food (*matiz) together (*ga-)," which is etymologically identical with companion. Cognate with Danish and Swedish mat, German Maat "mate," Dutch maat, from German. Meaning "one of a wedded pair" is attested from 1540s. Used as a form of address by sailors, laborers, etc., since at least mid-15c. Meaning "officer on a merchant vessel is from late 15c.

mate (v.1)

c. 1500, "to equal, rival," 1590s as "to match, couple, marry, join in marriage," from mate (n.1). Also, of animals, "to pair for the purpose of breeding." Related: Mated; mating.

mate (v.2)

"checkmate," c. 1300, from Old French mater "to checkmate, defeat, overcome," from mat "checkmated" (see checkmate (v.)).

mate (n.2)

in chess, "a condition of checkmate," c. 1300, mat, from Middle French mat, from Old French mater (see mate (v.2)).

1. "How are you, mate?" — "Not bad, mate, how's yourself?"

“最近怎么樣，老兄？”——“還不錯，你呢？”

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2. They want the males to mate with wild females.

他們希望這些雄性動物可以和野生的雌性動物交配。

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3. Kathy is a great mate, we are like sisters.

凱茜是個很好的伙伴，我們親如姐妹。

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4. A mate of mine used to play soccer for Liverpool.

我的一個朋友在利物浦隊踢過球。

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5. Last Saturday, I was out on the town with my mate.

上個星期六我和老友晚上去鬧市玩樂了。

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