depilate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin depilo, depilatus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛpɪleɪt/

Verb

depilate (third-person singular simple present depilates, present participle depilating, simple past and past participle depilated)

1. To remove hair from the body.
   • 1999, Franco Mormando, The Preacher’s Demons: Bernardino of Siena and the Social Underworld of Early Renaissance Italy, →ISBN, page 38:

     In Siena, the donkey upon which Bernardino had traveled so many miles was literally and thoroughly depilated in the mad rush for miracle-working relics.

Synonyms

• epilate

Related terms

• depilation

Translations

to remove hair from the body

• Bulgarian: обезкосмявам (obezkosmjavam)
• Catalan: depilar (ca)
• Danish: depilere, epilere
• Dutch: ontharen (nl), depileren
• Finnish: poistaa karvat, epiloida
• French: épiler (fr)
• Galician: depilar (gl)
• German: epilieren (de)
• Greek: αποτριχώνω (el) (apotrichóno)
• Hungarian: szőrtelenít (hu), epilál
• Ido: senpiligar (io), despilizar (io)
• Italian: depilare (it), depilarsi
• Polish: depilować (pl) impf, wydepilować pf
• Portuguese: depilar (pt)
• Quechua: chuhchannay, rutuy
• Russian: эпили́ровать (ru) (epilírovatʹ)
• Spanish: depilar (es)
• Swedish: depilera

Anagrams

• die plate, epilated, lepadite, pileated

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

depilate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

depilate f pl

1. feminine plural of depilato

Anagrams

• dipelate, latipede

Latin

Verb

dēpilāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēpilō

Spanish

Verb

depilate

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