opacate

English

Etymology

From Latin opacatus, past participle of opacare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈəʊpəkeɪt/

Verb

opacate (third-person singular simple present opacates, present participle opacating, simple past and past participle opacated)

1. (obsolete) To darken; to cloud.
   • 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC:

     […] when the same corpuscles, upon the unstopping of the glass, were put into a new motion, and disposed after a new manner, they did opacate that part of the air they moved in.

Related terms

• opacity
• opaque

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “opacate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• pea coat, peacoat

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

opacate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

opacate f pl

1. feminine plural of opacato

Spanish

Verb

opacate

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