fimbriate

Borrowed from Latin fimbriātus (“fibrous, fringed”), participial adjective formed on fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”) +‎ -ātus (participial adjective-forming suffix). See -ate (verb-forming suffix), -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

• IPA^(key): (verb) /ˈfɪm.bɹi.eɪt/

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• (adjective) IPA^(key): /ˈfɪm.bɹiət/, /ˈfɪm.bɹi.ɪt/

fimbriate (third-person singular simple present fimbriates, present participle fimbriating, simple past and past participle fimbriated)

1. (transitive) To fringe; to hem.
2. (transitive, heraldry) To apply a thin border (a fimbriation) to some element, often to satisfy the rule of tincture.
   • 1639, Thomas Fuller, “Of the Honourable Arms in Scutcheons of Nobilitie Occasioned by Their Service in the Holy Warre”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book V (A Supplement of the Historie of the Holy Warre), page 271:

     Beſides the divers tricking or dreſſing, as piercing, voiding, fimbriating, ingrailing, couping: And in fanſie and devices there is ſtill a plus ultrá; inſomuch that Croſſes alone as they are variouſly diſguiſed, are enough to diſtinguiſh all the ſeverall families of Gentlemen in England.

• fimbriated (adjective)
• fimbriation

fimbriate (not comparable)

1. (biology) Fringed, e.g. where the ends of a petal are split into two or more divisions.

   Synonym: fimbriated

   the fimbriate petals of the pink; the fimbriate end of the Fallopian tube

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fɪm.briˈaː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fim.briˈaː.t̪e]

fimbriāte

1. vocative masculine singular of fimbriātus