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-itate

-itate suffix: forming verbs, typically implying intense or repetitive activity.

Suffix

-itate

  1. (rare) Forming verbs, typically implying intense or repetitive activity.
    • [A]fter that the land doth trent Westward, as may be suspected by the want of ice, that the land, being farre remote to the North or West, the Sea doth keepe it selfe from frigitating by its continuall chafing and adjectating, as we see by the iles of Farre, Shetland, and Orkney, standing in and...“frigitate, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Origin of -itate

From Latin -itāt-, past participial stem of -itō. On the model of e.g. Classical Latin nōbilitō and found in borrowings e.g. premeditate, debilitate, agitate.

Questions about -itate

What does -itate mean?
-itate means forming verbs, typically implying intense or repetitive activity.
What part of speech is -itate?
-itate is a suffix.

Words near -itate in the dictionary

  1. -istically
  2. -istics
  3. -ists
  4. -isy
  5. -itan
  6. -itate
  7. -ite
  8. -ites
  9. -itic
  10. -itides
  11. -ities

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