atterrate

English

Etymology

From Italian atterrare. Compare Late Latin atterrare (“to cast to earth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈtɛɹeɪt/

Verb

atterrate (third-person singular simple present atterrates, present participle atterrating, simple past and past participle atterrated)

1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To fill up with alluvial earth.
   • 1738, John Ray, Travels Through the Low Countries:

     The rain doth […] atterrate or add part of the sea to the firm land

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

atterrate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

atterrate f pl

1. feminine plural of atterrato