compaginate

English

Etymology

First attested in 1648; borrowed from Late Latin compaginātus, perfect passive participle of compaginō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kəmˈpæd͡ʒɪneɪt/

Verb

compaginate (third-person singular simple present compaginates, present participle compaginating, simple past and past participle compaginated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To unite or hold together.
    • 1648, Walter Montagu, “The Fourteenth Treatise. The Test and Ballance of Filial and Mercenary Love. §. V. Advises in Order to the Preserving this Sort of Love and Fraternall Dilection, Represented as a Gracious Rule whereby to Judge of Our Rectitude in Filiall Love.”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia: Or, Devout Essaies, London: [] W[illiam] Lee, D[aniel] Pakeman, and G[abriel] Bedell, [], →OCLC, page 198:
      [O]ur fraternall charities ſeeme to be the ſide-pieces vvhich combine and compaginate the vvhole frame; ſo that theſe three concurrencies do compleat the meanes of our ſoules re-aſcent to her Creator: []

References

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

compaginate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

compaginate f pl

  1. feminine plural of compaginato

Spanish

Verb

compaginate

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