fimbriate

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed fromLatinfimbriātus(“fibrous, fringed”),participial adjectiveformed onfimbriae(“fibers, threads, fringe”)+‎-ātus(participial adjective-forming suffix),see-ate(verb-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• Audio(Southern England);“fimbriate”(verb):

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Verb

fimbriate(third-person singular simple presentfimbriates,present participlefimbriating,simple past and past participlefimbriated)

1. (transitive)Tofringe;tohem.
   • 1639,Thomas Fuller,“Of the Honourable Arms in Scutcheons of Nobilitie Occasioned by Their Service in the Holy Warre”, inThe Historie of the Holy Warre,Cambridge, Cambridgeshire:[…]Thomas Buck, one of the printers to theUniversitie of Cambridge[and sold by John Williams, London],→OCLC,book V (A Supplement of the Historie of the Holy Warre),page271:

     Beſides the divers tricking or dreſſing, as piercing, voiding,fimbriating,ingrailing, couping: And in fanſie and devices there is ſtill aplus ultrá;inſomuch that Croſſes alone as they are variouſly diſguiſed, are enough to diſtinguiſh all the ſeverall families of Gentlemen in England.

Derived terms

• fimbriated(adjective)
• fimbriation

Etymology 2

Learned borrowingfromLatinfimbriātus(“fibrous, fringed”)(more atetymology 1), see-ate(adjective-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):(adjective)/ˈfɪm.bɹi.ɪt/,(verb)/ˈfɪm.bɹi.eɪt/

• Audio(Southern England);“fimbriate”(adjective):

  (file)

Adjective

fimbriate(notcomparable)

1. (biology)Fringed,e.g. where the ends of apetalare split into two or moredivisions.

   Synonym:fimbriated

   thefimbriatepetals of the pink; thefimbriateend of the Fallopian tube

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/fim.briˈaː.te/,[fɪmbriˈäːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/fim.briˈa.te/,[fimbriˈäːt̪e]

Adjective

fimbriāte

1. vocativemasculinesingularoffimbriātus