intubate

English

Etymology

From in- +‎ tube +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix). First appears c. 1612 in the publications of Simon Sturtevant.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation)
  • (yod-coalescence) IPA^(key): /ˈɪntʃʊbeɪt/, /ˈɪntʃəbeɪt/
  • (without the yod-coalescence) IPA^(key): /ˈɪntjʊbeɪt/

  • Audio (Southern England); /ˈɪntʃʊbeɪt/:

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• (General American, yod-dropping) IPA^(key): /ˈɪntʊbeɪt/, /ˈɪntəbeɪt/

Verb

intubate (third-person singular simple present intubates, present participle intubating, simple past and past participle intubated)

1. (transitive, medicine) To insert a tube into.

   The doctor is about to intubate the patient's trachea.

   • 1886 July 6, J. K. White, “HINTS IN PRACTICE”, in Canadian Practitioner:

     you have no right to withhold it, unless you intubate. Intubation of the larynx I have never tried, but I have a tube ready in my office ever since I read an article on it a short time ago

Derived terms

• intubation
• intubator
• nonintubated
• reintubate
• unintubated

Translations

to insert a tube into

Basque: intubatu Catalan: intubar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 插管於 / 插管于, 插管於 / 插管于 (chāguǎn yú) Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: intuboida French: intuber (fr) German: intubieren (de) Greek: διασωληνώνω (el) (diasolinóno) Luxembourgish: intubéieren Polish: intubować Portuguese: entubar Russian: интуби́ровать (ru) impf or pf (intubírovatʹ) Spanish: intubar (es) Turkish: entübe etmek Vietnamese: luồn ống

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

intubate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

intubate f pl

1. feminine plural of intubato

Spanish

Verb

intubate

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