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balbutiate

balbutiate verb: to stammer.

Verb

balbutiate (third-person singular simple present balbutiates, present participle balbutiating, simple past and past participle balbutiated)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To stammer.
    • five times in foure and twenty houres praying (or rather balbutiating) orderly1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC

Forms of balbutiate

third-person singular presentbalbutiates
present participlebalbutiating
past participlebalbutiated
pastbalbutiated
alternative formbalbucinate

Origin of balbutiate

Latin balbutire, from balbus (“stammering”): compare French balbutier.

Questions about balbutiate

What does balbutiate mean?
Balbutiate means to stammer.
What part of speech is balbutiate?
Balbutiate is a verb.
What is the past tense of balbutiate?
The past tense of balbutiate is balbutiated.

Words near balbutiate in the dictionary

  1. balbucinated
  2. balbucinates
  3. balbucinating
  4. Balbuena
  5. Balbuenas
  6. balbutiate
  7. balbutiated
  8. balbutiates
  9. balbutiating
  10. balbutient
  11. balbuties

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