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evaginate

Today it means: To evert a bodily organ inside surface to outside. Full definition →

Latin ēvāgīnātus

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evaginate · verb¹

Latin · borrowed fromēvāgīnātus
English todayevaginate

Borrowed from Latin ēvāgīnātus, perfect passive participle of ēvāgīnō (“to unsheath”); see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

evaginate · adjective²

Latin · borrowed fromēvāgīnātus
English todayevaginate

Borrowed from Latin ēvāgīnātus, see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Alternatively, back-formation from evagination.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.