imbricate

Borrowed from Latin imbricātus (“tiled”).

imbricate (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of imbricated (“overlapping”).
   • 1903, George Francis Atkinson, chapter VII, in Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.‎^[1], 2nd edition, New York: Henry Holt:

     The pileus is sessile, or sometimes narrowed at the base into a short stem, the caps often numerous and crowded together in an overlapping or imbricate manner.

imbricate (third-person singular simple present imbricates, present participle imbricating, simple past and past participle imbricated)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To overlap in a regular pattern.
2. (linguistics) To undergo or cause to undergo imbrication.

• imbrication

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪm.brɪˈkaː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [im.briˈkaː.t̪e]

imbricāte

1. vocative masculine singular of imbricātus

imbricāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of imbricō

imbricate

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