agglutinate - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

• Beginning
• 1 English
  • 1.1 Etymology
  • 1.2 Pronunciation
  • 1.3 Adjective
    * 1.3.1 Translations
  • 1.4 Verb
    * 1.4.1 Derived terms
    * 1.4.3 Translations
  • 1.5 Noun
  • 1.6 References
• 2 Italian
  • 2.1 Etymology 1
    * 2.1.1 Verb
  • 2.2 Etymology 2
    * 2.2.1 Participle
• 3 Latin
  • 3.1 Verb

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

From Latin agglūtinātus, past participle of agglūtinare, adglūtināre (“to glue or cement to a thing”), from ad (“to”) + glūtināre (“to glue”), from glūten (“paste, glue”).

• (adjective, noun) IPA(key): /əˈɡluːtɪnət/
• (verb) IPA(key): /əˈɡluːtɪneɪt/

agglutinate

1. United with glue or as with glue; cemented together.
2. (linguistics) Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning.
   an agglutinate language
   an agglutinate family of languages

united with or as with glue

linguistics: consisting of root words combined with affixes

agglutinate (third-person singular simple present agglutinates, present participle agglutinating, simple past and past participle agglutinated)

1. (transitive) To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.
2. (linguistics) To form through agglutination.

• agglutinin

• antiagglutinating

• autoagglutinate

• autoagglutinating

• haemagglutinating

• macroagglutinate

• nonagglutinated

• nonagglutinating

• subagglutinating

• unagglutinated

• agglutination

• agglutinative

• agglutinant

to unite with or as with glue

linguistics: to form through agglutination

agglutinate (countable and uncountable, plural agglutinates)

1. (countable) A clump of agglutinated material.
   In some soils, agglutinates are a major constituent.
2. (uncountable) Agglutinated material.
   The formation of agglutinate is more abundant in mature regolith.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “agglutinate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “agglutinate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “agglutinate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

agglutinate

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

agglutinate f pl

1. feminine plural of agglutinato

agglūtināte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of agglūtinō

Categories:

• English terms borrowed from Latin
• English learned borrowings from Latin
• English terms derived from Latin
• English 4-syllable words
• English terms with IPA pronunciation
• English terms with audio pronunciation
• English lemmas
• English adjectives
• en:Linguistics
• English terms with collocations
• English verbs
• English transitive verbs
• English nouns
• English uncountable nouns
• English countable nouns
• English terms with usage examples
• English heteronyms
• Italian non-lemma forms
• Italian verb forms
• Italian past participle forms
• Latin non-lemma forms
• Latin verb forms