connotate

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English

Etymology

Latin con- + notatus, past participle of notare (to mark). Compare connote.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɒnəteɪt/
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Verb

connotate (third-person singular simple present connotates, present participle connotating, simple past and past participle connotated)

  1. To connote; to suggest or designate (something) as additional or representative; to imply.
    • 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 3, in The Lees of Happiness:
      George stared at her curiously. To his mind the word rompers connotated a garment extraneously smeared, as this one.
    • 1965, Herman Lawrence Zillmer, A Study of the Use of the Symbol in the Dramatic Aesthetics ...:
      A symbol, for Claudel, was a word, a picture, or an action which connotates a higher meaning.

References

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

connotate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

connotate f pl

  1. feminine plural of connotato

Anagrams

Spanish

Verb

connotate

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