Noun: palate
| Singular | palate |
| Plural | palates |
Sample Sentences
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I remember, when he was in Scotland, his praising ‘Gordon's palates’ (a dish of palates at the Honourable Alexander Gordon's) with a warmth of expression which might have done for honour to more important subjects. [1791, James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, Oxford, page 332:]
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Hard task! to hit the palate of such guests. [1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]:]
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entertain the palates of Nobles [1656, Thomas Baker, he Wicked Mans Plot Defeated:]
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I remember, when he was in Scotland, his praising 'Gordon's palates,' (a dish of palates at the Honourable Alexander Gordon's) with a warmth of expression which might have done honour to more important subjects. [1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson:]
Nouns inflected like palate
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *pel-?
4. Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-osder.
5. Latin palātumder.
6. Old French palatbor.
7. Middle English palate
8. English palate
9. From Middle English palate, from Latin palātum (“roof of the mouth, palate”), perhaps of Etruscan origin. See: Middle English Nouns '
palate', Latin Nouns '
palātum'.