arcuate
English
Etymology
Adjective
arcuate (comparative more arcuate, superlative most arcuate)
- curved into the shape of a bow.
- arcuate stalks
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- The cause of the confusion in sounds, and the inconfusion in species visible, is, for that the sight worketh in right lines, and so there can be no coincidence in the eye; but sounds that move in oblique and arcuate lines, must needs encounter and disturb the one the other.
Derived terms
Translations
curved into the shape of a bow
Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
arcuate
- inflection of arcuare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 2
Participle
arcuate f pl
- feminine plural of arcuato
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
arcuāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of arcuō