palpate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin palpātus, perfect passive participle of palpō (“touch softly”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: pălʹpāt, IPA^(key): /ˈpælpeɪt/

Verb

palpate (third-person singular simple present palpates, present participle palpating, simple past and past participle palpated)

1. To examine or otherwise explore through touch, particularly (medicine) in reference to an area or organ of the human body.
   • 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker:

     David reached inside with his fingers and palpated a logic board.

   I palpated his expired heart.

Synonyms

• touch

Translations

to examine by feeling

• Bulgarian: опипвам (bg) (opipvam), палпирам (palpiram)
• Esperanto: palpi (eo)
• Finnish: tunnustella (fi)
• French: palper (fr)
• German: abtasten (de), palpieren (de)
• Greek: ψηλαφώ (el) (psilafó)

  Ancient: ψηλαφάω (psēlapháō)

• Hungarian: kitapint (hu)
• Irish: lámhaigh
• Japanese: 触診する (ja) (しょくしんする, chokushin suru)
• Portuguese: palpar, apalpar (pt)
• Russian: ощупывать (ru) impf (oščupyvatʹ), ощупать (ru) pf (oščupatʹ)
• Spanish: palpar (es)
• Swedish: palpera (sv)

Adjective

palpate (not comparable)

1. Of palp, or having palp.

Related terms

• palp
• palpability
• palpable
• palpation
• palpiform
• palpitate
• palpitation

Further reading

• “palpate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “palpate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Italian

Etymology 1

Noun

palpate f

1. plural of palpata

Etymology 2

Verb

palpate

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

Etymology 3

Participle

palpate f pl

1. feminine plural of palpato

Anagrams

• lappate

Latin

Verb

palpāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of palpō

Spanish

Verb

palpate

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