arcuate

English

Etymology

From Latin arcuātus.

Adjective

arcuate (comparative more arcuate, superlative most arcuate)

  1. 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

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

arcuate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

arcuate f pl

  1. feminine plural of arcuato

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

arcuāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of arcuō