gyrate
English
Etymology
Back-formation from gyration[1] + English -ate (suffix meaning ‘to act [in the specified manner]’). Gyration is derived from gyre (“to spin around; to gyrate, to whirl; (rare) to make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl”) + -ation (suffix indicating actions or processes).[2] Gyre is from Late Middle English giren (“to turn (something) away; to cause (something) to revolve or rotate; to travel in a circle”),[3] from Old French girer (“to turn”), and directly from its etymon Latin gȳrāre,[4] the present active infinitive of gȳrō (“to turn in a circle, rotate; to circle or revolve around”) (from gȳrus (“circle; circular motion; circuit, course”), from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “a circle, a ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend; to curve”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /dʒaɪˈɹeɪt/, /ˈdʒaɪɹeɪt/
Audio (RP): (file) - Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GA" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒaɪˌɹeɪt/, /d͡ʒaɪˈɹeɪt/
- Rhymes: -eɪt (one pronunciation)
- Hyphenation: gyr‧ate
Verb
gyrate (third-person singular simple present gyrates, present participle gyrating, simple past and past participle gyrated)
Translations
Adjective
gyrate (comparative more gyrate, superlative most gyrate)
- (biology) Having coils or convolutions.
Translations
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References
- ^ “gyrate, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ^ “gyration, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2020; “gyration, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022; Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “gyration”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ “ǧīren, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ Compare “gyrate, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2019; and “gyre, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2020; “gyre, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) gȳrāte
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gew-
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *-eh₂tos
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