inquinate

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English

WOTD – 17 May 2011

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin inquināre (“polluting”).

Pronunciation

Verb

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  1. (formal) To pollute or make dirty.

Translations

Italian

Verb

inquinate

  1. inflection of inquinare:
    1. second-person plural present
    2. second-person plural imperative
  2. feminine plural past participle of inquinare

Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) inquināte

  1. vocative masculine singular of inquinātus

References

  • “inquinate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “inquinate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • inquinate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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