castellate

English

Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin castellātus (“fortified, castellate”), from castellum (“little fortification, castle”) + -ātus (“-ate”, forming adjectives).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkastələt/

Noun

castellate (plural castellates)

1. (historical, rare, obsolete) The district of a castle.
   • 1809, William Bawdwen translating the Domesday Book, p. 230:

     In the Castellate of Roger of Poictou...

   Synonym: castellany

Adjective

castellate (comparative more castellate, superlative most castellate)

1. (rare) castle-like: built or shaped like a castle.
   • 1830, William Phillips, Mt. Sinai, i.212:

     ...The living porphyry, in towers around
     Grotesquely castellate...

2. (rare) Castled: having or furnished with castles.
   • 1864, Benjamin Disraeli, Revolutionary Epick, ii.xix.103:

     ...Heights castellate...

3. (rare) Housed or kept in a castle.

   Synonyms: castle, incastellated

Synonyms

• (made into a castle): See fortified
• (furnished with castles): See fortified

Etymology 2

From Medieval Latin castellāre (“fortify”) + -ate (forming verbs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkastəleɪt/

Verb

castellate (third-person singular simple present castellates, present participle castellating, simple past and past participle castellated)

1. (transitive) To make into a castle: to build in the form of a castle or to add battlements to an existing building.
   • 1840, Henry Taylor, chapter XX, in Autobiography, volume I, page 321:

     The citizen who castellates a Villa at Richmond...

2. (intransitive, rare) To take the form of a castle.
   • 1831, Unimore, John Wilson, i.77:

     ...Clouds slowly castellating in a calm...

Synonyms

• castle, incastle, encastle, incastellate, encastellate, fortify

Related terms

• castellation

References

• "↑ 'castellate, n.", "'castellate, adj.", "castellate, v.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.