diversificate
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Medieval Latin diversificare (“to diversify”),[1] from Latin diversus (“diverse, different”). Alternatively, a hypercorrection of diversify + -ate, especially in later use.
Verb
editdiversificate (third-person singular simple present diversificates, present participle diversificating, simple past and past participle diversificated)
- (very rare) Synonym of diversify
- 1998, Harry Costin, Hector Vanolli, editors, Economic Reform in Latin America, Fort Worth, T.X. […]: The Dryden Press, →ISBN, page 326:
- Of the Andean countries, Colombia has been the most successful in diversificating manufactured exports.
Related terms
editReferences
edit- ^ “diversificate, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Italian
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editdiversificate
- inflection of diversificare:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editdiversificate f pl
Spanish
editVerb
editdiversificate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of diversificar combined with te
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