immolate

English

WOTD – 26 March 2012

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin immolō (“I sacrifice”) (past participle immolātus).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪm.əʊ.leɪt/, /ˈɪm.ə.leɪt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɪm.ə.leɪt/

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Verb

1. To kill as a sacrifice.
   • 1978, A.S. Byatt, The Virgin in the Garden

     A secular style, a new beginning after the iconoclastic excesses under young Edward VI, when angels, Mothers and Children had flared and crackled in the streets, immolated to a logical absolute God who disliked images.

2. To destroy, especially by fire.
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 19:

     She imparted these stories gradually to Miss Crawley; gave her the whole benefit of them; felt it to be her bounden duty as a Christian woman and mother of a family to do so; had not the smallest remorse or compunction for the victim whom her tongue was immolating; nay, very likely thought her act was quite meritorious, and plumed herself upon her resolute manner of performing it.

Derived terms

• self-immolate, self-immolation

Related terms

• immolation

Translations

kill as sacrifice

• Armenian: զոհաբերել (hy) (zohaberel), զենել (hy) (zenel)
• Bulgarian: принасям в жертва (prinasjam v žertva)
• Catalan: immolar (ca), sacrificar (ca)
• Dutch: offeren (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: uhrata (fi)
• French: immoler (fr), sacrifier (fr)
• German: opfern (de)
• Italian: immolare (it), sacrificare (it)
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• Portuguese: sacrificar (pt), imolar (pt)
• Romanian: imola, sacrifica (ro)
• Russian: соверша́ть жертвоприноше́ние (soveršátʹ žertvoprinošénije), приноси́ть в жертву (ru) (prinosítʹ v žertvu)
• Spanish: inmolar (es), sacrificar (es)
• Swedish: offra (sv)
• Tibetan: དམར་མཆོད་བྱེད་པ (dmar mchod byed pa)
• Ukrainian: прино́сити в же́ртву (prynósyty v žértvu)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

destroy

• Armenian: ողջակիզել (hy) (oġǰakizel)
• Catalan: immolar (ca)
• Dutch: vernietigen (nl)
• Finnish: tuhota (fi), polttaa (fi)
• French: immoler (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: zerstören (de)
• Portuguese: imolar (pt)
• Russian: сжига́ть (ru) (sžigátʹ)
• Spanish: inmolar (es)

Anagrams

• ammolite

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [im.moˈlaː.t̪e], /immoˈlate/

Verb

immolate

1. second-person plural present indicative of immolare
2. second-person plural imperative of immolare
3. feminine plural of immolato

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /im.moˈlaː.te/, [ɪmːɔˈɫ̪äːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /im.moˈla.te/, [imːoˈläːt̪e]

Participle

(deprecated template usage) immolāte

1. vocative masculine singular of immolātus