prolate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin prolatum, past participle of proferre (“to extend, lengthen”).
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prolate (comparative more prolate, superlative most prolate)
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Verb[edit]
prolate (third-person singular simple present prolates, present participle prolating, simple past and past participle prolated)
- (obsolete, transitive) To utter; to pronounce.
- 1629 (first performance), B[en] Jonson, The New Inne. Or, The Light Heart. […], London: […] Thomas Harper, for Thomas Alchorne, […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- Prolate it right.
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Participle[edit]
prōlāte
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