gladiate
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Latin gladius (“sword”) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).[1]
Adjective
gladiate (comparative more gladiate, superlative most gladiate)
Translations
(botany) sword-shaped
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Etymology 2
Back-formation from gladiator with -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Verb
gladiate (third-person singular simple present gladiates, present participle gladiating, simple past and past participle gladiated)
- To fight as a gladiator, to digladiate.
- 2013, Lorde, Glory and Gore: Pure Heroine:
- You could try and take us (oh, oh),
but we're the gladiators (oh, oh)
[…]
We gladiate, but I guess we're really fighting ourselves […]
References
- “gladiate, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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