concelebrate

English

Etymology

con- +‎ celebrate

Verb

concelebrate (third-person singular simple present concelebrates, present participle concelebrating, simple past and past participle concelebrated)

1. To celebrate along with others
   • 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 6:

     Here I could breake out into a boundleſſe race of oratory, in ſhrill trumpetting and concelebrating the royall magnificence of her gouernement, that for ſtate and ſtrict ciuill ordering, ſcant admitteth any riuals: but I feare it would be a theame diſpleaſant to the graue modeſty of the diſcreet preſent magiſtrates; and therefore conſultiuely I ouerſlip it, […]

2. (of a newly ordained priest) To celebrate a mass along with the bishop who ordained him

Related terms

• concelebration

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

concelebrate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

concelebrate f pl

1. feminine plural of concelebrato

Latin

Verb

concelēbrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of concelēbrō

Spanish

Verb

concelebrate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of concelebrar combined with te