connotate
English
editEtymology
editLatin con- + notatus, past participle of notare (“to mark”). Compare connote.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editconnotate (third-person singular simple present connotates, present participle connotating, simple past and past participle connotated)
- To connote; to suggest or designate (something) as additional or representative; to imply.
- 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 3, in The Lees of Happiness:
- George stared at her curiously. To his mind the word rompers connotated a garment extraneously smeared, as this one.
- 1965, Herman Lawrence Zillmer, A Study of the Use of the Symbol in the Dramatic Aesthetics ...:
- A symbol, for Claudel, was a word, a picture, or an action which connotates a higher meaning.
Related terms
editReferences
edit- “connotate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Italian
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editconnotate
- inflection of connotare:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editconnotate f pl
Anagrams
editSpanish
editVerb
editconnotate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of connotar combined with te