articulate
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Latin articulātus (“distinct, articulated, jointed”).
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) enPR: ärtĭ'kyələt, IPA(key): /ɑː(ɹ)ˈtɪk.jʊ.lət/
- (US) enPR: ärtĭ'kyələt, IPA(key): /ɑːɹˈtɪk.jə.lət/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪkjʊlɪt
- Rhymes: -ɪkjʊleɪt
Adjective edit
articulate (comparative more articulate, superlative most articulate)
- Clear; effective.
- Speaking in a clear and effective manner.
- She’s a bright, articulate young woman.
- Consisting of segments united by joints.
- The robot arm was articulate in two directions.
- jointed articulate animals
- Distinctly marked off.
- an articulate period in history
- (obsolete) Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.
- 1631, Francis [Bacon], “II. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- articulate sounds
- (obsolete, of sound) Related to human speech, as distinct from the vocalisation of animals.
- 1728, James Knapton, John Knapton, Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, page 146:
- Brutes cannot form articulate Sounds, cannot articulate the Sounds of the Voice, excepting some few Birds, as the Parrot, Pye, &c.
Synonyms edit
- (good at speaking): eloquent, well-spoken
Translations edit
clear, effective
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speaking in a clear or effective manner
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able to bend or hinge at certain points or intervals
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Noun edit
articulate (plural articulates)
- (zoology) An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.
- 1977, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History):
- They considered articulates to be pre-adapted for an eleutherozoic existence because they possess muscular arms which are potentially of value in crawling and swimming, as in comatulids.
Etymology 2 edit
From the adjective.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) enPR: ärtĭ'kyəlāt, IPA(key): /ɑː(ɹ)ˈtɪk.jʊ.leɪt/
- (US) enPR: ärtĭ'kyəlāt, IPA(key): /ɑːɹˈtɪk.jə.leɪt/
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Verb edit
articulate (third-person singular simple present articulates, present participle articulating, simple past and past participle articulated)
- (transitive) To make clear or effective.
- (transitive, intransitive) To speak clearly; to enunciate.
- I wish he’d articulate his words more clearly.
- (transitive) To explain; to put into words; to make something specific.
- I like this painting, but I can’t articulate why.
- (transitive) To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend.
- an articulated bus
- (music, transitive) to attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc.
- Articulate that passage heavily.
- (anatomy, intransitive) to form a joint or connect by joints
- The lower jaw articulates with the skull at the temporomandibular joint.
- (obsolete) To treat or make terms.
- c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, act 1, scene 9, lines 75–77:
- Send us to Rome / The best, with whom we may articulate / For their own good and ours.
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Translations edit
to make clear
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to speak clearly
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to explain
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music: to attack a note
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anatomy: to form a joint
Further reading edit
- “articulate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “articulate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Latin edit
Verb edit
articulāte
References edit
- “articulate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- articulate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish edit
Verb edit
articulate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of articular combined with te