odorate

English

Etymology

From Latin odoratus, past participle of odorare (“to perfume”), from odor (“odor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈəʊdəɹət/

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Adjective

odorate (comparative more odorate, superlative most odorate)

1. (obsolete) odorous
   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “IV. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     where there is heat and strength enough in the plant to make the leaves odorate , there the smell of the flower is rather evanid and weaker than that of the leaves

Noun

odorate (plural odorates)

1. (obsolete) A fragrant substance; perfume.
   • 1684, Thomas Browne, Musaeum Clausum:

     A transcendent perfume made of the richest odorates of both the Indies, kept in a book made of the Muschie stone of Niarienburg […]

   • 1821, Richard Franck, Northern Memoirs, Calculated for the Meridian of Scotland:

     And must this be our exercise to trample the beautiful banks and the florid meadows of famous Trent, to rifle her fords for diversion, and sweeten our senses with fragrant odorates that perfume the air?

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

odorate

1. inflection of odorare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

odorate f pl

1. feminine plural of odorato

Anagrams

• Dorotea, Teodora, dorotea

Latin

Verb

odōrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of odōrō