Etymology

novate

N1O1V4A1T1E1

Today it means: To replace something with something new Full definition →

Latin novātus
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromnovātus
  2. English todaynovate

First attested in 1611; borrowed from Latin novātus, perfect passive participle of novō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.