comparate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin comparātus, perfect passive participle of comparō, see -ate (noun-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Noun

comparate (plural comparates)

  1. (logic) One of two things being compared.
    (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Adjective

comparate (comparative more comparate, superlative most comparate)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Involving comparison, comparative.
    • 1662, Richard Baxter, chapter IV, in The Saints Everlasting Rest: Or, A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Glory. [], 9th edition, London: [] Francis Tyton and Jane Underhill, [], →OCLC, page 831:
      5. Between the ſimple Velleity of the will, and the choice that followeth the Comparate act of the intellect.

References

comparate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

Italian

Adjective

comparate

  1. feminine plural of comparato

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

comparāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of comparō

References

  • comparate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • comparate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • comparate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Verb

comparate

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