ovate

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

oval + -ate, from Latin ovatus.

Ovate leaf form

Adjective

ovate (comparative more ovate, superlative most ovate)

  1. Shaped like an egg.
    • 1852, William Macgillivray, A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory, page 573:
      The Geese, Aɴsᴇʀɪɴᴁ, have the body ovate, the head small, the bill stout and somewhat conical; the legs rather long; the wings of great length and breadth.
  2. (botany, of leaves) With the broadest extremity near the base.
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Noun

ovate (plural ovates)

  1. (archaeology) An egg-shaped hand axe.
    • 2012, Paul Pettitt, Mark White, The British Palaeolithic, page 122:
      Slightly derived handaxes from the Mildenhall glaciofluvial sands, generally in fresh condition and dominated by ovates and cordates.

Etymology 2

See vates.

Noun

ovate (plural ovates)

  1. An Irish bard.
  2. A member at a certain grade of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, a neo-druidism order based in England.
  3. A modern-day bard of a gorsedd, especially one acknowledged at an eisteddfod.

Latin

Etymology 1

Inflected form of ovātus, perfect passive participle of ovō (rejoice, applaud).

Pronunciation

Participle

ovāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of ovātus

Etymology 2

Inflected form of ōvātus, from ōvum (egg).

Pronunciation

Adjective

ōvāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of ōvātus

Spanish

Verb

ovate

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