bifurcate

See also: bifúrcate

English

WOTD – 8 February 2016

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin bifurcātus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌɪ.fək.eɪt/

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• IPA^(key): /baɪˈfɝ.kɪt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪ.fɚˌkeɪt/, /baɪˈfɝˌkeɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kɪt

Adjective

bifurcate (not comparable)

1. Divided or forked into two; bifurcated.
2. Having bifurcations.

Translations

Divided or forked into two; bifurcated

• Finnish: haarautunut (fi), kahtia haarautunut, kahtiajakoinen, kahtiajakautunut, (rare) bifurkaatti
• German: zweizackig
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Having bifurcations.

• Finnish: kahtia jakautuva, jakautuva (fi)
• German: gegabelt (de)
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Verb

bifurcate (third-person singular simple present bifurcates, present participle bifurcating, simple past and past participle bifurcated)

1. (intransitive) To divide or fork into two channels or branches.
2. (transitive) To cause to bifurcate.

Synonyms

• branch
• fork

 

Related terms

• bifurcation
• confurcate
• quadfurcated
• trifurcate

 

Translations

divide into two

• Bulgarian: разклонявам се (razklonjavam se), раздвоявам се (razdvojavam se)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 分叉 (zh) (fēnchā)

• Finnish: haaroittaa, jakaa kahtia
• French: bifurquer (fr)
• Greek: διακλαδώνομαι (el) (diakladónomai)
• Hungarian: kettéágazik (hu)
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• Italian: biforcare (it)
• Norwegian: bifurkere
• Portuguese: bifurcar (pt)
• Romanian: bifurca (ro)
• Russian: раздваивать (ru) (razdvaivatʹ)
• Spanish: bifurcar (es)
• Swedish: dela sig, klyva sig

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) bifurcāte

1. vocative masculine singular of bifurcātus