opacate

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English

Etymology

From Latin opacatus, past participle of opacare.

Pronunciation

Verb

opacate (third-person singular simple present opacates, present participle opacating, simple past and past participle opacated)

  1. (obsolete) To darken; to cloud.
    • 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) , Oxford, Oxfordshire: H Hall, printer to the University, for Tho Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC:
      [] when the same corpuscles, upon the unstopping of the glass, were put into a new motion, and disposed after a new manner, they did opacate that part of the air they moved in.

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Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

opacate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

opacate f pl

  1. feminine plural of opacato

Spanish

Verb

opacate

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