destinate

English

Etymology

The adjective is first attested in the first part of the 15th century, the verb in 1490, both in Middle English; borrowed from Latin dēstinātus, perfect passive participle of dēstinō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix); doublet of destine. Computing/postal use by analogy with originate. Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.

Pronunciation

• enPR: dĕs′tĭ-nāt′
• Hyphenation: des‧ti‧nate

Verb

destinate (third-person singular simple present destinates, present participle destinating, simple past and past participle destinated) (rare, now possibly nonstandard)

1. To destine, to choose.
2. To set a destination for (something), to send (something) to a particular destination.

   Synonym: originate

   • 1997 September 11, Tom Watson, “Hoe does FX work?”, in comp.dcom.telecom.tech (Usenet):

     Now days, it can probably be done with a programming setup in the originating/destinating switches, and not involve a full time channel.

3. To be scheduled to arrive at, as a destination.
   • 2009, Statistical Abstract of the United States:

     Prices for a mail piece weighing up to a half-pound range from $12.60 if it destinates in zones 1 and 2 to $19.50 if it destinates in zone 8.

Synonyms

• (choose; set destination): destine

Adjective

destinate (comparative more destinate, superlative most destinate) (obsolete)

1. (as a participial adjective) Determined, destined.
2. (as a participle) Destined, destinated; ordained, fated.
   • 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, “Certain Letters vvritten by M. Bradford to Other of His Frendes”, in Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC, book V, page [1262]:

     But because Christe dwelleth in you (as he doth by faithe) therfore stirreth he vp his first begoten sonne, the world, to seke how to disquiet you, to robbe you, to spoile you, to destroy you: and perchance your deare father, to trye and to make knowen vnto you, and to þe world, that ye are destinate to an other dwellyng then here on earthe, to an other citye then mannes eyes hath sene at any tyme: […]

Related terms

• destination
• destine
• destiny

Anagrams

• detainest, tetanised

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /destiˈnate/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Syllabification: des‧ti‧na‧te

Verb

destinate

1. present adverbial passive participle of destini

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /destiˈnate/
• Hyphenation: des‧ti‧na‧te

Verb

destinate

1. adverbial present passive participle of destinar

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /des.tiˈna.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: de‧sti‧nà‧te

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

destinate f pl

1. feminine plural of destinato

Participle

destinate f pl

1. feminine plural of destinato

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

destinate

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

Anagrams

• sdentiate, stendiate

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deːs.tɪˈnaː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [des.tiˈnaː.te]
• Hyphenation: dēs‧ti‧nā‧te

Verb

dēstināte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēstinō

Participle

dēstināte

1. vocative masculine singular of dēstinātus

References

• “destinate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “destinate”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /destiˈnate/ [d̪es.t̪iˈna.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ate
• Syllabification: des‧ti‧na‧te

Verb

destinate

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