Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

-itate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: -i-tate
IPA

5

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

3

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

suffix

Forming verbs, typically implying intense or repetitive activity.

Example Sentences

"[A]fter that the land doth trent Westward, as may be suspected by the want of ice, that the land, being farre remote to the North or West, the Sea doth keepe it selfe from frigitating by its continuall chafing and adjectating, as we see by the iles of Farre, Shetland, and Orkney, standing in and neere the same parallell with our frozen Fretum Hudson, where no Snow will lie for any time in Winter."

Etymology

From Latin -itāt-, past participial stem of -itō. On the model of e.g. Classical Latin nōbilitō and found in borrowings e.g. premeditate, debilitate, agitate.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: nōbilitō

Questions

What does -itate mean?: Forming verbs, typically implying intense or repetitive activity.
Where does -itate come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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