osculate
English
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From Latin ōsculātus (“kiss”), from ōs + -culus (“little mouth”).
Verb
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- (transitive) To kiss someone or something.
- (mathematics) To touch so as to have a common tangent at the point of contact.
- (intransitive) To make contact.
- (Vedic arithmetic) To perform osculation.
- To form a connecting link between two genera.
Derived terms
Adjective
osculate (not comparable)
- Relating to kissing.
Anagrams
Italian
Verb
osculate
- second-person plural present indicative of osculare
- second-person plural imperative of osculare
- feminine plural of osculato
Latin
Participle
(deprecated template usage) ōsculāte
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