osculate

From Latin ōsculāt-, past participial stem of ōsculor (“to kiss”), from ōsculum (“kiss”) + -or (verbal suffix), from ōs (“mouth”) + -culus (diminutive suffix). Doublet of oscillate.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒskjʊˌleɪt/, /ˈɒskjəˌleɪt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑskjəˌleɪt/, /ˈɑskjuˌleɪt/

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osculate (third-person singular simple present osculates, present participle osculating, simple past and past participle osculated)

1. (ambitransitive) To kiss.
   • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

     And in the Olmsted Hotel in Cleveland he surprised a porter and a maid lasciviously osculating in a stairwell.

2. (mathematics) To touch so as to have the same tangent and curvature at the point of contact.
3. (intransitive) To make contact.
4. (Vedic arithmetic) To perform osculation.
5. To form a connecting link between two genera.

• osculating
• osculatory

• osculation

From Latin ōsculātus.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒskjʊlət/, /ˈɒskjələt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑskjələt/, /ˈɑskjulət/

osculate (not comparable)

1. Relating to kissing.

   Synonym: osculatory

• costulae, lacteous, locustae, scale out, scaleout

osculate

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

osculate f pl

1. feminine plural of osculato

ōsculāte

1. vocative masculine singular of ōsculātus