librate
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Medieval Latin lībrāta, from Latin lībra (“pound”).
Noun edit
librate (plural librates)
- (now historical) A piece of land having a value of one pound per year.
Etymology 2 edit
From the participle stem of Latin lībrāre, from lībra (“a balance”).
Verb edit
librate (third-person singular simple present librates, present participle librating, simple past and past participle librated)
- (intransitive) To oscillate (like the beam of a balance).
- 2002 October 18, S. J. Peale, Man Hoi Lee, “A Primordial Origin of the Laplace Relation Among the Galilean Satellites”, in Science, volume 298, number 5593, , page 594:
- The currently observed orbital resonances at the 2:1 mean motion commensurabilities involving Io-Europa and Europa-Ganymede are such that the resonance variables and librate about 0° and librates about 180°, all with small amplitude.
- 1796, William Cliffton, The Group:
- Their parts all librate on too nice a beam.
- (intransitive) To be poised; to balance oneself.
- 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 138:
- Her playful Sea-horse […] His watery way with waving volutes wins, / Or listening librates on unmoving fins.
- (obsolete, transitive) To place in a balance; to weigh.
Related terms edit
Translations edit
to oscillate
to be poised, to balance
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References edit
- OED 2nd edition 1989
Anagrams edit
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
librate
- inflection of librarsi:
Etymology 2 edit
Participle edit
librate f pl
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Participle edit
lībrāte
References edit
- “librate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Spanish edit
Verb edit
librate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of librar combined with te