egerminate

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verb

To germinate.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

verbegerminate (third-person singular simple present egerminates, present participle egerminating, simple past and past participle egerminated)

present singular third person egerminates · participle present egerminating · participle past egerminated · past egerminated

  1. obsoleterareTo germinate.

    There are, in this translation, a great many learned and foreign words from the Latin and other languages, which […] do not egerminate from the vernacular tongue.

    1791, Sir John Sinclair, The statistical account of Scotland, volume 19, Edinburgh, page 361
    2 more examples

    […] ἐκφύῃ, in subjunct. present,—others read ἐκφυῇ, which is the subjunct. of ἐξεφύην, a later form of the aor. 2 for ἐξέφυν (intrans. as also the perf.), to egerminate, shoot out, put forth, i. e. the leaves put forth.

    1839, Charles Robson, “ἐκφύω”, in A Greek lexicon to the New Testament, London: Whittaker and Co., page 137

    It was a small building[…]; its worn-out walls were covered with the multifoliate ivy, which extended its egerminating branches from the south end of the church[…]

    1859, A Noontide Vision, London: Partridge and Co., page 5

Origin

  1. Latinēgerminō“to sprout”
  2. Latinēgermināt-
  3. Englishegerminate

From Latin ēgermināt-, perfect passive participial stem of Latin ēgerminō (“to sprout”). See Latin ē- (“out, away”), Latin germinō (“to sprout”), English germinate.

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