opacate

English

Etymology

From Latin opacatus, past participle of opacare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈəʊpəkeɪt/

Verb

opacate (third-person singular simple present opacates, present participle opacating, simple past and past participle opacated)

1. (obsolete) To darken; to cloud.
   • 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC:

     […] when the same corpuscles, upon the unstopping of the glass, were put into a new motion, and disposed after a new manner, they did opacate that part of the air they moved in.

Related terms

• opacity
• opaque

References

• “opacate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• pea coat, peacoat

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

opacate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

opacate f pl

1. feminine plural of opacato

Spanish

Verb

opacate

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