arcuate

Etymology edit

Latin arcuatus.

Adjective edit

arcuate (comparative more arcuate, superlative most arcuate)

1. curved into the shape of a bow

   arcuate stalks

   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     The cause of the confusion in sounds, and the inconfusion in species visible, is, for that the sight worketh in right lines, and so there can be no coincidence in the eye; but sounds that move in oblique and arcuate lines, must needs encounter and disturb the one the other.

Derived terms edit

Translations edit

Etymology 1 edit

Verb edit

arcuate

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

Etymology 2 edit

Participle edit

arcuate f pl

1. feminine plural of arcuato

Anagrams edit

• rutacea

Verb edit

arcuāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of arcuō