declinate

English

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Etymology

The adjective is first attested in 1820; borrowed from Latin dēclīnātus, perfect passive participle of dēclīnō (“to bend down”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (adjective) /ˈdɛklɪnət/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• IPA^(key): (verb) /ˈdɛklɪneɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

declinate (comparative more declinate, superlative most declinate)

1. Bent downward or aside.
2. (botany) Bending downward in a curve; declined.

Verb

declinate (third-person singular simple present declinates, present participle declinating, simple past and past participle declinated)

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (grammar, rare, nonstandard) Synonym of decline.
   • 1877, Samuel Royce, Deterioration and Race Education, page 313:

     […] as if we were all to become village school teachers and spend our lives in declinating nouns and conjugating verbs.

   • 2000, Charles J. Borges, Oscar Guilherme Pereira, Hannes Stubbe, Goa and Portugal: History and Development, page 361:

     […] we observe that in the use of this auxiliary two declinated forms were conserved: […]

References

• “declinate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

declinate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

declinate f pl

1. feminine plural of declinato

Latin

Verb

dēclīnāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēclīnō

Spanish

Verb

declinate

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