festinate

English

WOTD – 15 June 2008

Etymology

From Latin festīnātus; festina lente (make haste slowly).

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛs.tɪˌneɪt/

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• (adjective) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛstɪnət/

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Verb

festinate (third-person singular simple present festinates, present participle festinating, simple past and past participle festinated)

1. (medicine) To become involuntarily quicker, such as when walking or speaking, due to certain disorders.
2. (obsolete) To hurry.

Translations

to hurry

• Macedonian: вјаса (vjasa), ита (ita)

Adjective

festinate (comparative more festinate, superlative most festinate)

1. (obsolete) Hurried, hasty.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:

     Advise the Duke where you are going, to a most festinate preparation.

Derived terms

• festinately

Translations

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• Latin: festīnus, festīnātus

Latin

Verb

festīnāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of festīnō

Spanish

Verb

festinate

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