oblate
See also: Oblate
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɒbleɪt/ (or IPA(key): /ɒˈbleɪt/ for adjective)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɑbleɪt/
- Rhymes: (UK adjective) -eɪt
Etymology 1 edit
From French oblat and its source, post-classical Latin oblātus (“person dedicated to religious life”), a nominal use of the past participle of offerō (“I offer”).
Noun edit
oblate (plural oblates or oblati)
- (Roman Catholicism) A person dedicated to a life of religion or monasticism, especially a member of an order without religious vows or a lay member of a religious community.
- A child given up by its parents into the keeping or dedication of a religious order or house.
- 2007, The Venerable Bede started as an oblate at St Paul's, Jarrow, but by the time of his death in 735 was surely the most learned man in Europe. — Tom Shippey, ‘I Lerne Song’, London Review of Books 29:4, p. 19
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Etymology 2 edit
From Late Latin oblātus, from Latin ob (“in front of, before”) + lātus (“broad, wide”), (modeled after prōlātus (“extended, lengthened”)).
Adjective edit
oblate (comparative more oblate, superlative most oblate)
- Flattened or depressed at the poles.
- The Earth is an oblate spheroid.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
- Why should I not speak to him or to any human being who walks upright upon this oblate orange?
- 1997, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 39, in Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part Two: America, page 392:
- ’Tis prolate, still,’ with a long dejected Geordie O. ‘Isn’t it…?’ ‘I’m an Astronomer,– trust me, ’tis gone well to oblate.’
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Etymology 3 edit
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Verb edit
oblate (third-person singular simple present oblates, present participle oblating, simple past and past participle oblated)
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oblate
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Participle edit
oblāte