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English
Etymology
From French constater.
Verb
constate (third-person singular simple present constates, present participle constating, simple past and past participle constated)
- (linguistics) To relay information in a statement and say whether it is true or false.
- To ascertain; to verify; to establish; to prove.
1859, Frances Power Cobbe, An Essay on Intuitive Morals:It need be no concern of his how we come, through the joint action of our double nature, to apprehend at first those truths which, when apprehended, he knows to be necessary. The metaphysician has only to constate such facts ; it is the business of the psychologist to explain them.
1948, Acta psychiatrica et neurologica: Supplementum:Above all, he has thought himself able to constate a preparoxysmal increase of albumin, from which he has drawn far-reaching conclusions.
French
Pronunciation
Verb
constate
- inflection of constater:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
constate
- inflection of constare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 2
Participle
constate f pl
- feminine plural of constato
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Verb
cōnstāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of cōnstō
Portuguese
Verb
constate
- inflection of constatar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /konsˈtate/
- Rhymes: -ate
- Syllabification: cons‧ta‧te
Verb
constate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of constar combined with te
- inflection of constatar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative