germinate

English

Verb

germinate (third-person singular simple present germinates, present participle germinating, simple past and past participle germinated)

1. To sprout or produce buds.
2. To cause to grow.
   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, Lord Stranleigh Abroad^[1]:

     These were business hours, and a feeling of loneliness crept over him, perhaps germinated by his sight of the illustrated papers, and accentuated by an attempted perusal of them.

Translations

sprout or produce buds

• Catalan: germinar (ca)
• Galician: xerminar (gl)
• Icelandic: spíra (is), skjóta frjóöngum (is)

• Maori: kahu (mi)
• Romanian: germina (ro), încolți (ro)
• Spanish: germinar (es)

cause to grow

Anagrams

• reteaming

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Italian

Verb form

germinate

1. second-person plural present tense of germinare
2. second-person plural imperative of germinare

Anagrams

• emigrante, regimante, regimenta, remigante

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Latin

Participle

germināte

1. vocative masculine singular of germinātus