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語源 1

oval + -ate, from Latin ovatus.

形容詞

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, Anserinæ, 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.

同意語

• egg-shaped
• ovoid

派生語

名詞

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.

語源 2

See vates.

名詞

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.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ɔˈwaː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [oˈvaː.t̪e]

Participle

ovāte

1. vocative masculine singular of ovātus

語源 2

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

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [oːˈwaː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [oˈvaː.t̪e]

形容詞

ōvāte

1. vocative masculine singular of ōvātus