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English
Etymology
A back-formation from denotation, or from Latin dēnotātus (“marked”), past participle of dēnotō (“I mark, I observe”).[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
denotate (third-person singular simple present denotates, present participle denotating, simple past and past participle denotated)
- (archaic) To mark off; to denote.
1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Cure of Despaire by Physick, good counsell, comforts, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. , 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 4, member 3, subsection 6, page 716:Thoſe termes of all and for ever in ſcripture, are not eternall, but onely denotate a longer time, which by many examples they prove.
1653, Francis Rabelais [i.e., François Rabelais], translated by [Thomas Urquhart] and [Peter Anthony Motteux], “The Colours and Liveries of Gargantua”, in The Works of Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. , London: for Richard Baddeley, , →OCLC; republished in volume I, London: Navarre Society , , →OCLC, book the first, page 33:An old paultry book, say you, sold by the hawking Pedlars and Balladmongers, entituled The Blason of Colours: Who made it? whoever it was, he was wise in that he did not set his name to it: but, besides, I know not what I should rather admire in him, his presumption or his sottishnesse: his presumption and overweening, for that he should without reason, without cause, or without any appearance of truth, have dared to prescribe by his private authority, what things should be denotated and signified by the colour: […]
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Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
denotate
- inflection of denotare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 2
Participle
denotate f pl
- feminine plural of denotato
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Latin
Verb
dēnotāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of dēnotō
Spanish
Verb
denotate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of denotar combined with te