ovate

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊ.veɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊ.veɪt/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈəʉ.væɪt/

Etymology 1

oval + -ate, from Latin ovatus.

Ovate leaf form

Adjective

ovate (comparative more ovate, superlative most ovate)

1. Shaped like an egg.
   • 1852, William Macgillivray, A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory, page 573:

     The Geese, Aɴsᴇʀɪɴᴁ, have the body ovate, the head small, the bill stout and somewhat conical; the legs rather long; the wings of great length and breadth.

2. (botany, of leaves) With the broadest extremity near the base.

Synonyms

• egg-shaped
• ovoid

Derived terms

• obovate

Translations

shaped like an egg — see egg-shaped

botany, of leaves: broadest near the base

• Finnish: puikea (fi)
• Spanish: aovada (es) f
• Welsh: wyffurf (cy)

Noun

ovate (plural ovates)

1. (archaeology) An egg-shaped hand axe.
   • 2012, Paul Pettitt, Mark White, The British Palaeolithic, page 122:

     Slightly derived handaxes from the Mildenhall glaciofluvial sands, generally in fresh condition and dominated by ovates and cordates.

Etymology 2

See vates.

Noun

ovate (plural ovates)

1. An Irish bard.
2. A member at a certain grade of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, a neo-druidism order based in England.
3. A modern-day bard of a gorsedd, especially one acknowledged at an eisteddfod.

Latin

Etymology 1

Inflected form of ovātus, perfect passive participle of ovō (“rejoice, applaud”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /oˈu̯aː.te/, [oˈu̯äːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oˈva.te/, [oˈväːt̪e]

Participle

ovāte

1. vocative masculine singular of ovātus

Etymology 2

Inflected form of ōvātus, from ōvum (“egg”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /oːˈu̯aː.te/, [oːˈu̯äːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oˈva.te/, [oˈväːt̪e]

Adjective

ōvāte

1. vocative masculine singular of ōvātus

Spanish

Verb

ovate

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