Editing Yerba mate (section)

==Name and pronunciation==
The name given to the plant in the [[Guaraní language|Guaraní]] language (of the indigenous people who first used mate) is {{lang|gn|kaʼa}}, which has the same meaning as 'herb'.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lemos Barbosa |first=Antônio|author-link=Antônio Lemos Barbosa|url=https://archive.org/details/barbosa_1956/page/n9/mode/2up |title=Curso de Tupi Antigo |publisher=Livraria São José |year=1956 |location=Rio de Janeiro}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=de Almeida Navarro |first=Eduardo |title=Dicionário do Tupi Antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil |publisher=Global Editora |year=2013 |isbn=9788526019331 |location=São Paulo}}</ref> {{lang|pt|Congonha}}, in Portuguese, a term describing several herb species,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Congonha - Arca del Gusto |url=https://www.fondazioneslowfood.com/en/ark-of-taste-slow-food/congonha/ |access-date=2022-10-29 |website=Slow Food Foundation |language=en-US}}</ref> is derived from the [[Tupian language|Tupí]] expression {{Lang|tup|kõ'gõi}}'','' meaning something like 'what keeps us alive', but is rarely used nowadays.<ref>FERREIRA, A. B. H. ''Novo Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa''. Segunda edição. Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira, 1986. p.453</ref> ''Mate'' is from the [[Quechua languages|Quechua]] {{lang|qu|mati}},<ref name="rae mate">Real Academia Española. [http://lema.rae.es/drae/?val=mate "Mate"]. Retrieved 23 May 2013.</ref> a word that means 'container for a drink' and 'infusion of an herb', as well as 'gourd'.<ref name="AULEX mati">[http://aulex.org/qu-es/?busca=mati&idioma=en AULEX, "Online Quechua-Spanish Dictionary"]. Retrieved 23 May 2013.</ref> The word ''mate'' is used in modern Portuguese and Spanish.

The pronunciation of {{lang|es|yerba mate}} in Spanish is {{IPA|es|ˈɟʝeɾβa ˈmate|}}, with the stress on the first syllable of ''mate''.<ref name="rae mate" /> The word {{lang|es|yerba}} is Spanish for 'herb', a variant spelling of {{Lang|es|hierba}} used throughout Latin America.<ref name="rae yerba">Real Academia Española. [http://lema.rae.es/drae/?val=yierba%20mate "Yerba"]. Retrieved 23 May 2013.</ref> ''Yerba'' may be understood as 'herb', but also as 'grass' or 'weed'. It may also be used in reference to marijuana (''[[Cannabis sativa]]''). In Argentina, {{lang|es|yerba}} refers exclusively to the {{lang|es|yerba mate}} plant.<ref name="rae yerba" /> {{lang|es|Yerba mate}}, therefore, literally means the 'gourd herb'; i.e., the herb one drinks from a gourd.

The Portuguese name for the plant is pronounced {{IPA|pt|ˈɛɾvɐ ˈmate|}} or {{IPA|pt|ˈɛɾvɐ ˈmatʃi|}} in the areas of traditional consumption. The drinks are usually called {{lang|pt|[[chimarrão]]}} {{IPA|pt|ʃimaˈʁɐ̃w|}} (hot; traditionally served in a gourd), {{lang|pt|[[tereré]]}} {{IPA|pt|teɾeˈɾɛ|}} (cold; traditionally served in a bull horn), or {{lang|pt|chá mate}} {{IPA|pt|ˈʃa ˈmate|}} (hot or cold; lit. 'mate tea', served in cups or glasses). While {{lang|pt|chá mate}} is made with roasted leaves, the other drinks are made with raw or lightly toasted green leaves, and are very popular in the south and center-west of the country. Most people, colloquially, call both the plant and the beverage by the word {{lang|pt|mate}}.<ref name="saude.abril"/>

In English, both the spellings ''mate'' and ''maté'' are used to refer to the plant or the beverage. The [[acute accent]] over the final '-e' was likely added by analogy with words of French origin like café, not to mark stress but to indicate that the '-e' is not [[Silent e|silent]] as it is in the English word ''mate'' (partner or friend);<ref name="Merriam-Webster">{{cite web |date=13 August 2010 |title=Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary |url=http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/yerba%20mate |access-date=5 June 2011 |publisher=M-w.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=mate - beverage |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |url=http://www.britannica.com/topic/mate-beverage |access-date=8 October 2015}}</ref> indeed French also uses the spelling {{lang|fr|maté}} with an accent.<ref>{{Cite web |title=maté - traduction - Dictionnaire Français-Anglais WordReference.com |url=https://www.wordreference.com/fren/mat%C3%A9 |access-date=2023-12-29 |website=www.wordreference.com |language=fr}}</ref> In Spanish, the spelling {{lang|es|maté}} is an unrelated word meaning 'I killed', a conjugation of the verb ''matar''.<ref>[http://www.wordmagicsoft.com/dictionary/es-en/mat%E9.php "Word Magic Spanish Dictionary"]. Retrieved 23 May 2013.</ref>