osculate

English

Etymology 1

From Latin ōsculāt-, past participial stem of ōsculor (“to kiss”), from ōsculum (“kiss”) + -or (verbal suffix), from ōs (“mouth”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).[1] Doublet of oscillate.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɒskjʊˌleɪt/, /ˈɒskjəˌleɪt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɑskjəˌleɪt/, /ˈɑskjuˌleɪt/
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Verb

osculate (third-person singular simple present osculates, present participle osculating, simple past and past participle osculated)

  1. (ambitransitive) To kiss.
    • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
      And in the Olmsted Hotel in Cleveland he surprised a porter and a maid lasciviously osculating in a stairwell.
  2. (mathematics) To touch so as to have the same tangent and curvature at the point of contact.
  3. (intransitive) To make contact.
  4. (Vedic arithmetic) To perform osculation.
  5. To form a connecting link between two genera.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin ōsculātus.[2]

Pronunciation

Adjective

osculate (not comparable)

  1. Relating to kissing.
    Synonym: osculatory

References

  1. ^ “osculate, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
  2. ^ “osculate, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

osculate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

osculate f pl

  1. feminine plural of osculato

Latin

Participle

ōsculāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of ōsculātus
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