arcuate

English

Etymology

Latin arcuatus.

Adjective

arcuate (comparative more arcuate, superlative most arcuate)

1. curved into the shape of a bow

   arcuate stalks

   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, 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:

     The cause of the confusion in sounds, and the inconfusion in species visible, is, for that the sight worketh in right lines, and so there can be no coincidence in the eye; but sounds that move in oblique and arcuate lines, must needs encounter and disturb the one the other.

Derived terms

• arcuate fasciculus
• periarcuate

Translations

curved into the shape of a bow

• Bulgarian: дъговиден (dǎgoviden), аркообразен (arkoobrazen)
• Portuguese: arcado (pt), arcuado

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

arcuate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

arcuate f pl

1. feminine plural of arcuato

Anagrams

• rutacea

Latin

Verb

arcuāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of arcuō