cooptate
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin cooptātus, past participle of cooptō (“to elect”); co- + optō (“to choose”).
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cooptate (third-person singular simple present cooptates, present participle cooptating, simple past and past participle cooptated)
- (obsolete) To choose; to elect.
- 1681, Christopher Jelinger, Sacra Unio:
- the Gentiles shall be cooptated with the Israelites
References edit
- “cooptate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
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cooptate
- inflection of cooptare:
Etymology 2 edit
Participle edit
cooptate f pl
Latin edit
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cooptāte
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cooptate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of cooptar combined with te