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mati
Quechua · pre-1500s
"a small gourd used as a cup"
named the gourd used as a drinking vessel
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mate
Spanish (Rioplatense) · 1600s
"a gourd cup, and the tea drunk from it"
adopted in the Río de la Plata region for both the gourd and the herbal tea drunk from it
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mate
English · 1800s
"a caffeinated herbal tea traditionally drunk from a gourd"
borrowed into English to describe the South American herbal tea and its vessel
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