precipitate · verb1
- Latin · derived frompraecipitātus
- English todayprecipitate
From Latin praecipitātus, perfect passive participle of praecipitō (“throw down, hurl down, throw headlong”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more), from praeceps (“head foremost, headlong”) (praecipit- in its oblique stem), from prae (“before”) + -ceps (“headed”).
precipitate · adjective2
- Latin · derived frompraecipitātus
- English todayprecipitate
From Latin praecipitātus (see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more).
precipitate · noun3
- New Latin · derived frompraecipitātum
- English todayprecipitate
From New Latin praecipitātum. Equivalent to Latin praecipitō + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.