alate

Latin ālātus, from āla (“wing”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪˌleɪt/ enPR: āʹlāt'

alate (comparative more alate, superlative most alate)

1. (entomology, botany) Having winglike extensions or parts; winged.
   • 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 113:

     Beetles fly, many ants send forth massive swarms of reproductive alate females and males, arachnids and insect predators emerge from their hidden refugia, and termite swarm.

• alated

alate (plural alates)

1. A winged, reproductive form of several social insects.

From a- +‎ late.

alate (not comparable)

1. (archaic) recently; lately; of late.
   • 1552, Hughe Latymer [i.e., Hugh Latimer], Augustine Bernher, compiler, “[The First Sermon]”, in Certayn Godly Sermons, Made uppon the Lords Prayer, […], London: […] John Day, […], published 1562, →OCLC, folio 5, recto:

     There hathe bene alate ſuche tales ſpreade abroade, and moſt vntruly, ſuch falſe taletellers ſhal haue a greuous puniſhement of the Lord whan he ſhall come to rewarde euerye one according vnto his deſertes.

alate

1. inflection of alare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

alate f pl

1. feminine plural of alato

• altea, talea

ālāte

1. vocative masculine singular of ālātus