crenellate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French créneler (“to form the shape of a crenel, crenellate”) + English -ate (suffix forming verbs meaning ‘to act in the specified manner’). Créneler is derived from Old French crenel (“crenel, embrasure”) (modern French créneau) (from Latin *crēnella, diminutive of crēna (“incision; notch”); compare Old French cren (“a notch”)) + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first conjugation verbs).[1] The English word is analysable as crenel + -ate.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɹɛnɛleɪt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɹɛnəˌleɪt/
- Hyphenation: cre‧nel‧late
Verb[edit]
crenellate (third-person singular simple present crenellates, present participle crenellating, simple past and past participle crenellated)
Alternative forms[edit]
- crenelate (US)
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to furnish with crenelles
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References[edit]
- ^ Compare “crenellate | crenelate, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1893; “crenellate, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading[edit]
- battlement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia