osculate
English
Etymology
From Latin ōsculātus (“kiss”), from ōs + -culus (“little mouth”).
Pronunciation
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Audio: (file)
Verb
osculate (third-person singular simple present osculates, present participle osculating, simple past and past participle osculated)
- (transitive, intransitive) To kiss.
- 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
- And in the Olmsted Hotel in Cleveland he surprised a porter and a maid lasciviously osculating in a stairwell.
- 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
- (mathematics) To touch so as to have a common tangent at the point of contact.
- (intransitive) To make contact.
- (Vedic arithmetic) To perform osculation.
- To form a connecting link between two genera.
Derived terms
Adjective
osculate (not comparable)
- Relating to kissing.
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
osculate
- inflection of osculare:
Etymology 2
Participle
osculate f pl
Latin
Participle
(deprecated template usage) ōsculāte
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