opacate
English
Etymology
From Latin opacatus, past participle of opacare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈəʊpəkeɪt/
Verb
opacate (third-person singular simple present opacates, present participle opacating, simple past and past participle opacated)
- (obsolete) To darken; to cloud.
- 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC:
- […] when the same corpuscles, upon the unstopping of the glass, were put into a new motion, and disposed after a new manner, they did opacate that part of the air they moved in.
Related terms
References
- “opacate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
opacate
- inflection of opacare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 2
Participle
opacate f pl
- feminine plural of opacato
Spanish
Verb
opacate