crenellate

English edit

Etymology edit

From French créneler (“to form the shape of a crenel, crenellate”) + English -ate (suffix forming verbs meaning ‘to act in the specified manner’). Créneler is derived from Old French crenel (“crenel, embrasure”) (modern French créneau) (from Latin *crēnella, diminutive of crēna (“incision; notch”); compare Old French cren (“a notch”)) + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first conjugation verbs).^[1] The English word is analysable as crenel +‎ -ate.

Pronunciation edit

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɛnɛleɪt/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɛnəˌleɪt/
Hyphenation: cre‧nel‧late

Verb edit

crenellate (third-person singular simple present crenellates, present participle crenellating, simple past and past participle crenellated)

To furnish with crenelles.
To indent; to notch.

Alternative forms edit

crenelate (US)

Derived terms edit

Translations edit

to furnish with crenelles

to indent; to notch — see indent,‎ notch

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Translations to be checked

French: ^{(please verify)} créneler (fr)

References edit

^ Compare “crenellate | crenelate, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1893; “crenellate, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.