segregate

English

Etymology

From Latin sēgregātus, perfect passive participle of sēgregō (“to separate”), from sē- (“apart”) + gregō (“to flock or group”), from grex (“flock”). Compare gregarious, aggregate.

Pronunciation

• (Adjective):
  • enPR: sĕ'grəgət, IPA^(key): /ˈsɛɡɹəɡət/

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• (Verb):
  • enPR: sĕ'grəgāt, IPA^(key): /ˈsɛɡɹəˌɡeɪt/

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Adjective

segregate (comparative more segregate, superlative most segregate)

1. Separate; select.
2. (botany) Separated from others of the same kind.
3. (geology) Separate from a mass and collected together along lines of fraction.

Verb

segregate (third-person singular simple present segregates, present participle segregating, simple past and past participle segregated)

1. (transitive) To separate.
   • 1959 November, “L.T. and E.R. developments in East London”, in Trains Illustrated, page 529:

     One aim of the reorganisation on both routes is to segregate completely the operation of the District and Tilbury Lines between London and Upminster, removing physical connections between the two.

   • 2015, “Your Love is Incarceration”, in Clutch:

     Throw me in cuffs, no chance of parole / Back in the house, thirty days in the hole / Segregate me from the local population, your love is, uh, incarceration

2. (transitive) In particular, to separate and organize by characteristics.

   Please segregate the pairs of shoes by size into their respective boxes.

3. (intransitive, politics) To separate (races, sexes, or other groups, especially black and white people), especially by social policies that directly or indirectly keep them apart.
   • 2016 June 16, Terry L Jones, Jennifer E Perry, Contemporary Issues in California Archaeology, Routledge, →ISBN:

     Although the California State Supreme Court ended the official segregation of public schools in 1877, Sacramento continued to segregate well into the 1880s (Sacramento African American Historical and Cultural Society [SAAHCS] 1990:9, 20).

   • 2019 March 28, Peter Charles, The Search for Justice: Lawyers in the Civil Rights Revolution, 1950–1975, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 137:

     Although some lunch counters continued to segregate well into 1965, despite the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter relented on July 25, 1960.26 Unwilling for the slow process of litigation in federal courts to work its way through […]

   • 2021 December 15, Christy McGuire, Taps For A Jim Crow Army: Letters from Black Soldiers in World War II, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN:

     […] the National Guard continued to segregate and practice racial discrimination; and black soldiers often found it difficult to obtain decent housing in surrounding communities.

Synonyms

• isolate, separate, sequester, sunder out; see also Thesaurus:segregate

Antonyms

• aggregate

Derived terms

• consegregate
• cosegregate
• cosegregating
• desegregate
• missegregate
• nonsegregating
• outsegregate
• presegregate
• resegregate
• segregatable
• segregative
• segregator
• self-segregate

Related terms

• segregation

Translations

to separate

• Bulgarian: отделям (bg) (otdeljam), изолирам (bg) (izoliram)
• Catalan: segregar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 隔离 (zh) (gélí)

• Dutch: afzonderen (nl)
• Estonian: eraldama
• Finnish: erotella (fi)
• German: absondern (de), trennen (de), isolieren (de)
• Greek: διαχωρίζω (el) (diachorízo)
• Italian: segregare (it)
• Latin: sēgregō
• Māori: whakatāuke
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: segregere (no), (sexes) kjønnsdele

  Nynorsk: segregere, (sexes) kjønnsdele

• Portuguese: segregar (pt)
• Spanish: segregar (es)
• Swedish: segregera (sv)

Noun

segregate (plural segregates)

1. An entity that is separated in some way from a reference group or entity.

   A segregate becomes conspicuous once it is removed from its aggregate.

   • 1949, Agriculture Handbook, number 401, page 171:

     […] to determine whether geographic segregates are discernible.

   • 1987, Stephen A. Tyler, Cognitive Anthropology: Readings, page 49:

     […] the first three segregates are included in a superordinate category at a lower level than that of the segregate ultimately including hawk, horse, and crocodile.

References

• “segregate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Easter egg

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se.ɡreˈɡa.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: se‧gre‧gà‧te

Etymology 1

Verb

segregate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

segregate f pl

1. feminine plural of segregato

Anagrams

• saggerete

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [seː.ɡrɛˈɡaː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [se.ɡreˈɡaː.te]

Verb

sēgregāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of sēgregō

Spanish

Verb

segregate

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