depilate

English

Etymology

First attested in 1575; borrowed from Latin dēpilātus, perfect passive participle of dēpilō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛpɪleɪt/

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Verb

depilate (third-person singular simple present depilates, present participle depilating, simple past and past participle depilated)

1. To remove all hair from skin so as to make it smooth.

   Synonym: hair

   • 1999, Franco Mormando, The Preacher’s Demons: Bernardino of Siena and the Social Underworld of Early Renaissance Italy, →ISBN, page 38:

     In Siena, the donkey upon which Bernardino had traveled so many miles was literally and thoroughly depilated in the mad rush for miracle-working relics.

Hyponyms

• epilate

Derived terms

• depilator

Related terms

• depilation
• pelota
• pilose
• pilosity
• pilous

Translations

to remove hair from the body

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• Bulgarian: обезкосмявам (obezkosmjavam)
• Catalan: depilar (ca)
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• Danish: depilere, epilere
• Dutch: ontharen (nl), depileren
• Finnish: poistaa karvat, epiloida
• French: épiler (fr)
• Galician: depilar (gl)
• German: epilieren (de)
• Greek: αποτριχώνω (el) (apotrichóno)
• Hungarian: szőrtelenít (hu), epilál
• Ido: senpiligar (io), despilizar (io)
• Italian: depilare (it), depilarsi
• Japanese: 脱毛する (だつもうする, datsumou suru), 除毛する (じょもうする, jomou suru)
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• Latin: dēpilō
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• Macedonian: депилира (depilira)
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: depilere, epilere

• Polish: depilować (pl) impf, wydepilować pf
• Portuguese: depilar (pt)
• Quechua: chuhchannay, rutuy
• Romanian: depila (ro), epila (ro)
• Russian: эпили́ровать (ru) (epilírovatʹ)
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• Spanish: depilar (es)
• Swedish: depilera (sv)

Anagrams

• die plate, epilated, lepadite, pileated

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

depilate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

depilate f pl

1. feminine plural of depilato

Anagrams

• dipelate, latipede

Latin

Verb

dēpilāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēpilō

Spanish

Verb

depilate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of depilar combined with te