signate

English

Etymology

From Latin signatus.

Adjective

signate (not comparable)

1. (zoology) Having definite colour markings; bearing spots resembling letters.
2. Designate.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 signate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

• ageinst, easting, eatings, gainest, genista, giantes, ingates, ingesta, seating, tagines, tangies, teasing, tsigane

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Latin

Etymology 1

sīgnātus +‎ -ē

Adverb

sīgnātē (comparative sīgnātius, superlative sīgnātissimē)

1. expressively, clearly, distinctly

Etymology 2

Verb

signāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of signō

References

• “signate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• signate in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• signate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette