Other forms: sated, sates
To sate is to satisfy an appetite fully. Sate his hunger, sated at last, sate their curiosity.
The fullness is complete, which is why sated often carries a hint of too much. It is literary rather than everyday. It was reshaped from an older English word under the influence of the Latin satiate, which means much the same.
1verbsateTo satisfy an appetite fully.
“The huge dinner sated even my brother's enormous appetite.”
sate is a satisfying.
An alteration of the older English sade, to weary or satisfy, reshaped after the Latin satiate.
Proto-Indo-European
*seh₂- — to satiate, be satisfied
Proto-Germanic
*sadaz — sated
Proto-West Germanic
*sadōn — to satiate, become satisfied
Old English
sadian — to satisfy, satiate, fill, be sated, become wearied
Middle English
saden — to weary, satisfy, become wearied or satiated
English, today
sate
Built from
Alteration (after words such as satiate and satisfy) of earlier sade (“to weary, satiate, satisfy”), from Middle English saden (“to weary, satisfy, become wearied or satiated”), from Old English sadian (“to satisfy, satiate, fill, be sated, become wearied”), from Proto-West Germanic sadōn (“to satiate, become satisfied”), from Proto-Germanic sadaz (“sated”), from Proto-Indo-European seh₂- (“to satiate, be satisfied”). Cognate with Middle Low German saden, Middle High German saten (“to saturate, satisfy, satiate”), Icelandic seðja (“to satisfy”). a doublet of sad.
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