spate

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /speɪt/
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• rhymes with -eɪt
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• homophone: speight
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• CMU ARPABET: S P EY1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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The noun is derived from Middle English spate, spait (“a flood”), influenced by Scots spate (“torrent of water, flood; heavy downpour of rain; (figurative) bout of drinking; large crowd of people; flood of events, words, etc.”). The further etymology of the Middle English and Scots words is uncertain; they are possibly related to English spatter and Dutch spatten (“to spatter, splash”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sp(y)ēw-, *spyū- (whence English spit (“to evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.”)), which is imitative of spitting. The verb is derived from the noun, probably influenced by Scots spate (“to flood, swell; to rain heavily; (figurative) to scold fiercely”).

49 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: oorstroming — (countable) (sudden) flood or inundation of water; (uncountable) flooding, inundation
• Afrikaans: vloed — (countable) (sudden) flood or inundation of water; (uncountable) flooding, inundation
• Bulgarian: наводне́ние (navodnénie) — (countable) (sudden) flood or inundation of water; (uncountable) flooding, inundation
• Bulgarian: прииждане (priiždane) — (countable) (sudden) flood or inundation of water; (uncountable) flooding, inundation
• Chinese Mandarin: 氾濫 /氾滥 (fànlàn) — (countable) (sudden) flood or inundation of water; (uncountable) flooding, inundation
• Chinese Mandarin: 洪水 (hóngshuǐ) — (countable) (sudden) flood or inundation of water; (uncountable) flooding, inundation
• Czech: záplava — (countable) (sudden) flood or inundation of water; (uncountable) flooding, inundation
• Dutch: bandjir — (countable) (sudden) flood or inundation of water; (uncountable) flooding, inundation
• Dutch: overstroming — (countable) (sudden) flood or inundation of water; (uncountable) flooding, inundation
• Finnish: tulva — (countable) (sudden) flood or inundation of water; (uncountable) flooding, inundation
• French: crue — (countable) (sudden) flood or inundation of water; (uncountable) flooding, inundation
• Japanese: 洪水 (kōzui) — (countable) (sudden) flood or inundation of water; (uncountable) flooding, inundation
• Japanese: 大水 — (countable) (sudden) flood or inundation of water; (uncountable) flooding, inundation
• Korean: 홍수 (hongsu) — (countable) (sudden) flood or inundation of water; (uncountable) flooding, inundation
• Polish: powódź — (countable) (sudden) flood or inundation of water; (uncountable) flooding, inundation
• Russian: наводне́ние (navodnénije) — (countable) (sudden) flood or inundation of water; (uncountable) flooding, inundation
• Russian: па́водок (pávodok) — (countable) (sudden) flood or inundation of water; (uncountable) flooding, inundation
• Serbo-Croatian: poplava — (countable) (sudden) flood or inundation of water; (uncountable) flooding, inundation
• Serbo-Croatian: povodanj — (countable) (sudden) flood or inundation of water; (uncountable) flooding, inundation
• Spanish: aluvión — (countable) (sudden) flood or inundation of water; (uncountable) flooding, inundation
• Spanish: riada — (countable) (sudden) flood or inundation of water; (uncountable) flooding, inundation
• Swedish: svall — (countable) (sudden) flood or inundation of water; (uncountable) flooding, inundation
• Ukrainian: повінь (povinʹ) — (countable) (sudden) flood or inundation of water; (uncountable) flooding, inundation
• Ukrainian: розлив (rozlyv) — (countable) (sudden) flood or inundation of water; (uncountable) flooding, inundation
• Czech: příval — sudden heavy downpour of rain
• Finnish: kaatosade — sudden heavy downpour of rain
• Chinese Mandarin: 突然迸發 /突然迸发 (tūránbèngfā, túránbèngfā) — sudden increase or rush of something — see also flood, outburst, outpouring
• Czech: příval — sudden increase or rush of something — see also flood, outburst, outpouring
• Dutch: stroom — sudden increase or rush of something — see also flood, outburst, outpouring
• Dutch: toevloed — sudden increase or rush of something — see also flood, outburst, outpouring
• Dutch: zondvloed — sudden increase or rush of something — see also flood, outburst, outpouring
• Finnish: hyöky — sudden increase or rush of something — see also flood, outburst, outpouring
• Finnish: vyöry — sudden increase or rush of something — see also flood, outburst, outpouring
• French: recrudescence — sudden increase or rush of something — see also flood, outburst, outpouring
• Irish: roiseadh — sudden increase or rush of something — see also flood, outburst, outpouring
• Japanese: ほとばしり (hotobashiri) — sudden increase or rush of something — see also flood, outburst, outpouring
• Japanese: 続発 (zokuhatsu) — sudden increase or rush of something — see also flood, outburst, outpouring
• Russian: наплыв (naplyv) — sudden increase or rush of something — see also flood, outburst, outpouring
• Serbo-Croatian: bujica — sudden increase or rush of something — see also flood, outburst, outpouring
• Spanish: avalancha — sudden increase or rush of something — see also flood, outburst, outpouring
• Swedish: flod — sudden increase or rush of something — see also flood, outburst, outpouring
• Swedish: flöde — sudden increase or rush of something — see also flood, outburst, outpouring
• Swedish: skur — sudden increase or rush of something — see also flood, outburst, outpouring
• Swedish: störtflod — sudden increase or rush of something — see also flood, outburst, outpouring
• Swedish: ström — sudden increase or rush of something — see also flood, outburst, outpouring
• Swedish: svall — sudden increase or rush of something — see also flood, outburst, outpouring
• Ukrainian: наплив (naplyv) — sudden increase or rush of something — see also flood, outburst, outpouring
• Ukrainian: потік (potik) — sudden increase or rush of something — see also flood, outburst, outpouring
• Ukrainian: сплеск (splesk) — sudden increase or rush of something — see also flood, outburst, outpouring