imperate
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Etymology edit
From Latin imperātus, past participle of imperō (“I command”). Doublet of mpret.
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imperate (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Done by express direction; not involuntary; commanded.
- a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
- those Imperate acts before spoken of wherein we see the immediate empire of the Soul.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “imperate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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imperate
- adverbial present passive participle of imperar
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
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imperate
- inflection of imperare:
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Participle edit
imperate f pl
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Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /im.peˈraː.te/, [ɪmpɛˈräːt̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /im.peˈra.te/, [impeˈräːt̪e]
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imperāte
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imperate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of imperar combined with te