conservate

English

Etymology

Back-formation from conservation.

Verb

conservate (third-person singular simple present conservates, present participle conservating, simple past and past participle conservated)

1. (dated, transitive) To conserve.
   • 1873, Van Nostrand's engineering magazine:

     The theory which was, and we believe is still maintained by the patentees, embraces the idea that the vitality of the animal is thus conservated and eventually conveyed to the plant per the Native Guano.

   • 1919, Frank Hunter Potter, The Naval Reserve:

     When Hoover's conservating pen / Cut down our steak and sausage ration / With one accord we cried "AMEN," / And meatlessness became the fashion.

2. (nonstandard, intransitive) To practice conservation.
   • 2001 March, Matt Groening, “Birdbot of Ice-Catraz”, in Futurama, season 3, episode 37:

     I'm sorry, but if it's fun in any way it's not environmentalism. […] Let's conservate.

Anagrams

• conversate, convertase

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kon.serˈva.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: con‧ser‧và‧te

Participle

conservate

1. feminine plural of conservato

Verb

conservate

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

Anagrams

• conversate

Latin

Verb

cōnservāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of cōnservō

Participle

cōnservāte

1. vocative masculine singular of cōnservātus

Spanish

Verb

conservate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of conservar combined with te