oscitate

English

Etymology

From Latin oscitare, from os (“the mouth”) + citare, v. intens. from ciere (“to move”).

Verb

oscitate (third-person singular simple present oscitates, present participle oscitating, simple past and past participle oscitated)

To gape; to yawn.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Anagrams

ascot tie

Latin

Participle

oscitāte

vocative masculine singular of oscitātus