arcuate

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English

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Etymology

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Latin arcuatus.

Adjective

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arcuate (comparative more arcuate, superlative most arcuate)

  1. curved into the shape of a bow
    arcuate stalks
    • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. [], London: [] William Rawley []; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee [], →OCLC:
      The cause of the confusion in sounds, and the inconfusion in species visible, is, for that the sight worketh in right lines, and so there can be no coincidence in the eye; but sounds that move in oblique and arcuate lines, must needs encounter and disturb the one the other.

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Italian

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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arcuate

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

Etymology 2

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Participle

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arcuate f pl

  1. feminine plural of arcuato

Anagrams

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Latin

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Verb

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arcuāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of arcuō