colorate
English
Etymology 1
From color + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkʌləɹeɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
colorate (third-person singular simple present colorates, present participle colorating, simple past and past participle colorated)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Latin colōrātus, past participle of colōrō (“I color”). Equivalent to color + -ate (adjective-froming suffix)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkʌləɹət/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
colorate (comparative more colorate, superlative most colorate)
- (obsolete) Colored.
- 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
- had the tunicles and humours of the eye , all , or any of them , been colorate , many of the rays proceeding from the viſible object would have been stopped and ſuffocated before they could come to the bottom
Derived terms
Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
colorate
- inflection of colorare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 2
Participle
colorate f pl
- feminine plural of colorato
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
colōrāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of colōrō
References
- “colorate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- colorate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish
Verb
colorate