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egerminate

egerminate verb: to germinate.

Verb

egerminate (third-person singular simple present egerminates, present participle egerminating, simple past and past participle egerminated)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To germinate.
    • There are, in this translation, a great many learned and foreign words from the Latin and other languages, which […] do not egerminate from the vernacular tongue.1791, Sir John Sinclair, The statistical account of Scotland, volume 19, Edinburgh, page 361
    • […] ἐκφύῃ, in subjunct. present,—others read ἐκφυῇ, which is the subjunct. of ἐξεφύην, a later form of the aor. 2 for ἐξέφυν (intrans. as also the perf.), to egerminate, shoot out, put forth, i. e. the leaves put forth.1839, Charles Robson, “ἐκφύω”, in A Greek lexicon to the New Testament, London: Whittaker and Co., page 137

Forms of egerminate

third-person singular presentegerminates
present participleegerminating
past participleegerminated
pastegerminated

Origin of egerminate

From Latin ēgermināt-, perfect passive participial stem of Latin ēgerminō (“to sprout”). See Latin ē- (“out, away”), Latin germinō (“to sprout”), English germinate.

Questions about egerminate

What does egerminate mean?
Egerminate means to germinate.
What part of speech is egerminate?
Egerminate is a verb.
What is the past tense of egerminate?
The past tense of egerminate is egerminated.

Words near egerminate in the dictionary

  1. egences
  2. egency
  3. eger
  4. Egeria
  5. Egerian
  6. egerminate
  7. egerminated
  8. egerminates
  9. egerminating
  10. egers
  11. egersis

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