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- Latin · borrowed fromcōnfigūrātus
- English todayconfigurate
First attested in 1566; borrowed from Latin cōnfigūrātus, perfect passive participle of cōnfigūrō (“to form or alter”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of configure.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.