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cothurnate

cothurnate adjective: wearing a cothurn, or (by extension) tragic, solemn.

Adjective

cothurnate (comparative more cothurnate, superlative most cothurnate)

  1. (obsolete) Wearing a cothurn, or (by extension) tragic, solemn.

Forms of cothurnate

comparativemore cothurnate
superlativemost cothurnate

Origin of cothurnate

From cothurn + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Questions about cothurnate

What does cothurnate mean?
Cothurnate means wearing a cothurn, or (by extension) tragic, solemn.
What part of speech is cothurnate?
Cothurnate is an adjective.

Words near cothurnate in the dictionary

  1. cothromboplastin
  2. Cothron
  3. Cothrons
  4. cothurn
  5. cothurnal
  6. cothurnate
  7. cothurned
  8. cothurni
  9. cothurnian
  10. cothurnopore
  11. cothurnopores

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