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)
- (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: […]
Related terms
References
- “compaginate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
compaginate
- inflection of compaginare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 2
Participle
compaginate f pl
- feminine plural of compaginato
Spanish
Verb
compaginate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of compaginar combined with te