pandiculate

English

WOTD – 8 December 2008

Joseph Ducreux pandiculating; self-portrait c. 1783

Etymology

From Latin pandiculātus, perfect active participle of pandiculor (“stretch oneself”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /pænˈdɪk.jə.leɪt/

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Verb

pandiculate (third-person singular simple present pandiculates, present participle pandiculating, simple past and past participle pandiculated)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To fully stretch the torso and upper limbs, typically accompanied by yawning.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:pandiculate.

Derived terms

• pandiculation

Translations

to stretch oneself and make sounds

• Azerbaijani: gərnəşmək
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 欠伸 (zh) (qiànshēn) (yawn and stretch)

• Dutch: zich uitrekken
• Estonian: ringutama
• French: pandiculer (fr)
• German: räkeln (de), rekeln (de), strecken (de)
• Italian: stendersi (it)
• Korean: 흠신하다(欠伸) (heumsinhada) (formal, literary), 기지개하다 (ko) (gijigaehada)
• Malay: menggeliat, menggeliatkan
• Maori: taiaroa
• Portuguese: pandicular, espreguiçar (pt)
• Russian: потягиваться (ru) (potjagivatʹsja), тяну́ться (ru) (tjanútʹsja), растягивать (ru) (rastjagivatʹ)

Anagrams

• paniculated

Latin

Participle

pandiculāte

1. vocative masculine singular of pandiculātus