constate

See also: constaté

English

Etymology

From French constater.

Pronunciation

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Verb

constate (third-person singular simple present constates, present participle constating, simple past and past participle constated)

1. (linguistics) To relay information in a statement and say whether it is true or false.

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2. To ascertain; to verify; to establish; to prove.
   • 1859, Frances Power Cobbe, An Essay on Intuitive Morals:

     It need be no concern of his how we come, through the joint action of our double nature, to apprehend at first those truths which, when apprehended, he knows to be necessary. The metaphysician has only to constate such facts ; it is the business of the psychologist to explain them.

   • 1948, Acta psychiatrica et neurologica: Supplementum:

     Above all, he has thought himself able to constate a preparoxysmal increase of albumin, from which he has drawn far-reaching conclusions.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃s.tat/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Homophones: constatent, constates

Verb

constate

1. inflection of constater:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• contâtes, contesta

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

constate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

constate f pl

1. feminine plural of constato

Anagrams

• contaste, contesta, costante, scontate

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kõːˈstaː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [konˈstaː.te]

Verb

cōnstāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of cōnstō

Portuguese

Verb

constate

1. inflection of constatar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konsˈtate/ [kõnsˈt̪a.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ate
• Syllabification: cons‧ta‧te

Verb

constate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of constar combined with te
2. inflection of constatar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative