ingeminate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from the participle stem of Latin ingeminō (repeat, reiterate).

Pronunciation

  • (verb) IPA(key): /ɪnˈdʒɛm.ɪ.neɪt/
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  • (adjective) IPA(key): /ɪnˈdʒɛm.ɪ.nət/
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Verb

ingeminate (third-person singular simple present ingeminates, present participle ingeminating, simple past and past participle ingeminated)

  1. (transitive) To say (a statement, word etc.) two or more times; to reiterate, to emphasize through repetition.
    • 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, section II:
      we found a black pavillion; in it three old Arabians; who, out of their Alcoran ingeminated a dolefull requiem to their Brothers carcasse, over which they sat []

Translations

Adjective

ingeminate (comparative more ingeminate, superlative most ingeminate)

  1. redoubled
    • 1642, Jeremy Taylor, The Sacred Order and Offices of Episcopacy or Episcopacy Asserted against the Arians and Acephali New and Old:
      It is an ingeminate expression of our labours . And that supposes us to have faculties capable of improvement
  2. reiterated

Anagrams

Latin

Participle

ingemināte

  1. vocative masculine singular of ingeminātus
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