amalgamate

English

WOTD – 4 November 2011

Etymology

From Medieval Latin amalgamātus, past participle of amalgamāre, amalgama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈmælɡəˌmeɪt/

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Verb

amalgamate (third-person singular simple present amalgamates, present participle amalgamating, simple past and past participle amalgamated)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To merge, to combine, to blend, to join.

   Synonym: mix

   Antonym: separate

   to amalgamate two races

   to amalgamate one race with another

   • 1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension, […], London: […] J. Owen, […], and F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington, […], →OCLC:

     Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one.

2. To make an alloy of a metal and mercury.
3. (transitive, mathematics) To combine (free groups) by identifying respective isomorphic subgroups.

Derived terms

• reamalgamate
• unamalgamating

Related terms

• amalgam
• amalgamation

Translations

to combine or blend

• Finnish: sulauttaa, yhdistää (fi) (transitive); sulautua (fi), yhdistyä (fi) (intransitive)
• German: fusionieren (de), mischen (de), verbinden (de)
• Hungarian: vegyít (hu), egyesít (hu), ötvöz (hu), fuzionál (hu), keveredik (hu), egybeolvaszt (hu), vegyül (hu)
• Maori: whakatōpū
• Norwegian: blande (no)
• Portuguese: amalgamar (pt)
• Spanish: amalgamar (es), fusionar (es), unir (es)
• Swedish: fusionera

to make an alloy of mercury and another metal

• Bulgarian: амалгами́рам (bg) (amalgamíram)
• Finnish: amalgamoida
• German: verquicken (de), amalgamieren (de), mit (de) Quecksilber (de) legieren (de)
• Hungarian: foncsoroz (hu)
• Manx: colheie, covest, tar ry-cheilley
• Polish: amalgamować impf
• Portuguese: amalgamar (pt)
• Spanish: amalgamar (es)

math: to combine free groups

• Spanish: amalgamar (es)

Adjective

amalgamate (comparative more amalgamate, superlative most amalgamate)

1. Coalesced; united; combined.

Noun

amalgamate (plural amalgamates)

1. The substance resulting from a process of amalgamation.

Further reading

• amalgamate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

amalgamate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

amalgamate f pl

1. feminine plural of amalgamato

Spanish

Verb

amalgamate

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