curvate

English

Alternative forms

• curvated

Etymology

Latin curvatus (“curved”), past participle of curvo (“I curve”), from curvus.

Adjective

curvate (comparative more curvate, superlative most curvate)

1. bent in a regular form; curved

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

curvate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

curvate f pl

1. feminine plural of curvato

Latin

Verb

curvāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of curvō

Spanish

Verb

curvate

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