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cooptate

/ˌkəʊˈɒp.teɪt/

cooptate verb: to choose; to elect.

Verb

cooptate (third-person singular simple present cooptates, present participle cooptating, simple past and past participle cooptated)

  1. (obsolete) To choose; to elect.
    • the Gentiles shall be cooptated with the Israelites1681, Christopher Jelinger, Sacra Unio

cooptate meaning in Bengali

cooptate in Bengali

বেছে নেওয়া, নির্বাচিত করা

Forms of cooptate

third-person singular presentcooptates
present participlecooptating
past participlecooptated
pastcooptated

Origin of cooptate

First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin cooptātus, perfect passive participle of cooptō (“to elect”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from co- + optō (“to choose”).

Questions about cooptate

What does cooptate mean?
Cooptate means to choose; to elect.
What is cooptate in Bengali?
Cooptate in Bengali is বেছে নেওয়া, নির্বাচিত করা. See Cooptate meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is cooptate?
Cooptate is a verb.
How do you pronounce cooptate?
Cooptate is pronounced /ˌkəʊˈɒp.teɪt/.
What is the past tense of cooptate?
The past tense of cooptate is cooptated.

Words near cooptate in the dictionary

  1. coops
  2. coops in
  3. coops up
  4. coopsful
  5. coopt
  6. cooptate
  7. cooptated
  8. cooptates
  9. cooptating
  10. cooptation
  11. cooptations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cooptate (page history and authors); cooptate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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