auscultate

English

Etymology

Back-formation from auscultation.

Verb

auscultate (third-person singular simple present auscultates, present participle auscultating, simple past and past participle auscultated)

1. To listen (for example to the heart or lungs) by auscultation; to examine by auscultation.
   • 1969, Hortense Calisher, chapter 3, in The New Yorkers,‎^[1], Boston: Little, Brown, page 123:

     The doctor, listening past him, had had the same bovine stare as when he was auscultating.

Translations

to practice auscultation

• Arabic: تَسَمَّعَ (tasammaʕa)
• Bulgarian: преслушвам (preslušvam)
• Catalan: auscultar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聽診／听诊 (zh) (tīngzhěn)

• Dutch: ausculteren (nl)
• Finnish: auskultoida (fi), kuunnella (fi)
• French: ausculter (fr)
• German: abhören (de), abhorchen (de), (medical jargon) auskultieren (de)
• Greek: ακροάζομαι (el) (akroázomai)
• Ido: auskultar (io)
• Japanese: 聴診する (ja) (ちょうしんする, chōshin-surú)
• Macedonian: аускултира (auskultira)
• Polish: auskultować impf, wyauskultować pf (dated)
• Portuguese: auscultar (pt)
• Russian: слу́шать (ru) (slúšatʹ), выслу́шивать (ru) (vyslúšivatʹ), прослу́шивать (ru) (proslúšivatʹ)
• Spanish: auscultar (es)

References

• “auscultate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

auscultate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

auscultate f pl

1. feminine plural of auscultato

Latin

Verb

auscultāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of auscultō

Spanish

Verb

auscultate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of auscultar combined with te