inquinate

English

WOTD – 17 May 2011

Etymology

From Latin inquināre (“polluting”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪnkwɪneɪt/

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Verb

inquinate (third-person singular simple present inquinates, present participle inquinating, simple past and past participle inquinated)

1. (formal) To pollute or make dirty.

Translations

to pollute or make dirty

• Finnish: tahria (fi), tahrata (fi)
• Russian: засорять (ru) (zasorjatʹ), загрязнять (ru) (zagrjaznjatʹ)
• Spanish: contaminar (es)

Italian

Verb

inquinate

1. inflection of inquinare:
   1. second-person plural present
   2. second-person plural imperative
2. feminine plural past participle of inquinare

Latin

Participle

inquināte

1. vocative masculine singular of inquinātus

References

• “inquinate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “inquinate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• inquinate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Verb

inquinate

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