osculate

English

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Etymology

From Latin ōsculātus (“kiss”), from ōs + -culus (“little mouth”).

Verb

osculate (third-person singular simple present osculates, present participle osculating, simple past and past participle osculated)

1. (transitive) To kiss someone or something.
2. (mathematics) To touch so as to have a common tangent at the point of contact.
3. (intransitive) To make contact.
4. (Vedic arithmetic) To perform osculation.
5. To form a connecting link between two genera.

Derived terms

• osculation
• osculating
• osculatory

Adjective

osculate (not comparable)

1. Relating to kissing.

Anagrams

• lacteous, locustae, scale out, scaleout

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Italian

Verb

osculate

1. second-person plural present indicative of osculare
2. second-person plural imperative of osculare
3. feminine plural of osculato

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Latin

Participle

ōsculāte

1. vocative masculine singular of ōsculātus