palpate

Borrowed from Latin palpātus, perfect passive participle of palpō (“touch softly”).

• enPR: pălʹpāt, IPA^(key): /ˈpælpeɪt/

palpate (third-person singular simple present palpates, present participle palpating, simple past and past participle palpated)

1. To examine or otherwise explore through touch, particularly (medicine) in reference to an area or organ of the human body.
   • 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker:

     David reached inside with his fingers and palpated a logic board.

   I palpated his expired heart.

• touch

palpate (not comparable)

1. Of palp, or having palp.

• palp
• palpability
• palpable
• palpation
• palpiform
• palpitate
• palpitation

• “palpate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “palpate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

palpate f

1. plural of palpata

palpate

1. inflection of palpare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

palpate f pl

1. feminine plural of palpato

• lappate

palpāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of palpō

palpate

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