suffragate

English

Etymology

Latin suffragatus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsʌfɹəɡeɪt/

Verb

suffragate (third-person singular simple present suffragates, present participle suffragating, simple past and past participle suffragated)

  1. (obsolete) To vote.
    • 1676, John Dryden, Prologue to the University of Oxford:
      suffragating tribes

References

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

suffragate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

suffragate f pl

  1. feminine plural of suffragato

Latin

Verb

suffrāgāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of suffrāgō