castellate

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/ˈkastələt//ˈkastəleɪt/

adjective

castle-like: built or shaped like a castle.

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OriginMedieval Latin castellātus →
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Meanings

castellate1

adjectivecastellate (comparative more castellate, superlative most castellate)

comparative more castellate · superlative most castellate

  1. rarecastle-like: built or shaped like a castle.

    ...The living porphyry, in towers around Grotesquely castellate...

    1830, William Phillips, Mt. Sinai, i.212
  2. rareCastled: having or furnished with castles.

    ...Heights castellate...

    1864, Benjamin Disraeli, Revolutionary Epick, ii.xix.103
  3. rareHoused or kept in a castle.

    Synonyms: castle, incastellated

castellate2

verbcastellate (third-person singular simple present castellates, present participle castellating, simple past and past participle castellated)

present singular third person castellates · participle present castellating · participle past castellated · past castellated

  1. transitiveTo make into a castle: to build in the form of a castle or to add battlements to an existing building.

    The citizen who castellates a Villa at Richmond...

    1840, Henry Taylor, chapter XX, in Autobiography, volume I, page 321

    Synonyms: castle, incastle, encastle, incastellate, encastellate, fortify

  2. intransitiverareTo take the form of a castle.

    ...Clouds slowly castellating in a calm...

    1831, Unimore, John Wilson, i.77

castellate3

nouncastellate (plural castellates)

plural castellates

  1. historicalobsoleterareThe district of a castle.

    In the Castellate of Roger of Poictou...

    1809, William Bawdwen translating the Domesday Book, p. 230

    Synonyms: castellany, castlery

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveHoused or kept in a castle.

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castleincastellated

verbTo make into a castle: to build in the form of a castle or to add battlements to an existing building.

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castleincastleencastleincastellateencastellatefortify

nounThe district of a castle.

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castellanycastlery
Also see
castellanycastlecastleryfortified

Origin

castellate · adjective

  1. Medieval Latincastellātus“fortified” “made into a castle”
  2. Englishcastellate

From Medieval Latin castellātus (“fortified” “made into a castle”), from castellum (“little fortification, castle”) + -ātus (forming participial adjectives). By surface analysis, Latin castellum + -ate (adjective-forming suffix) or castle + -ate.

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castellate · verb

From Medieval Latin castellō (“fortify”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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castellate · noun

  1. Medieval Latincastellātus
  2. Englishcastellate

Borrowed from Medieval Latin castellātus. By surface analysis, castle + -ate (forming nouns denoting a rank or office, the concrete charge of this office).

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