ampliate
English
editEtymology
editLatin ampliātus, past participle of ampliō (“to make wider”).
Pronunciation
edit- (adjective) IPA(key): /ˈæmpliət/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (verb) IPA(key): /ˈæmplieɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
editampliate (comparative more ampliate, superlative most ampliate)
Verb
editampliate (third-person singular simple present ampliates, present participle ampliating, simple past and past participle ampliated)
- (transitive, obsolete) To enlarge.
- 1648, J[oseph] Hall, chapter XXIII, in Select Thoughts: Or, Choice Helps for a Pious Spirit. […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Brooke, […], published 1654, →OCLC, pages 77–78:
- Hovv glad ſhould vve be rather to ampliate the benefit of the great VVork of our Redeemer?
- 1905, Frederick Du Cane Godman, Osbert Salvin, Biologia Centrali-americana:
- In this and the two following genera the space between the postcostal vein and ulnar ramus is distinctly ampliated towards the ape
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ampliate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
editItalian
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /amˈplja.te/, (traditional) /am.pliˈa.te/[1]
- Rhymes: -ate
- Hyphenation: am‧plià‧te, (traditional) am‧pli‧à‧te
Etymology 1
editVerb
editampliate
- inflection of ampliare:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editampliate f pl
References
edit- ^ ampliare in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Anagrams
editLatin
editVerb
editampliāte
Spanish
editVerb
editampliate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of ampliar combined with te
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