fatigate

English

Etymology

From Latin fatigatus.

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /ˈfætɪɡeɪt/

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• (adjective) IPA^(key): /ˈfætɪɡət/

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Verb

fatigate (third-person singular simple present fatigates, present participle fatigating, simple past and past participle fatigated)

1. (obsolete) To weary; to tire; to fatigue.
   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, edited by Ernest Rhys, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC:

     But Fabius being painful in pursuing Annibal from place to place, awaiting to have him at advantage, at the last did so fatigate him and his host

Adjective

fatigate (comparative more fatigate, superlative most fatigate)

1. (obsolete) Wearied; tired; fatigued.
   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, edited by Ernest Rhys, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC:

     he suffre nat the childe to be fatigate with continuall studie or lernyng

   • c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

     Requickened what in flesh was fatigate.

   • 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 68:

     The young Englishman […] never fatigate, nor despondent, nor overthrown by any demand.

References

• “fatigate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Verb

fatīgāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of fatīgō

Spanish

Verb

fatigate

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