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Geminate definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GEM'INATE, v.t. [L. gemino.] To double. [Little used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a doubled or long consonant; "the `n' in `thinness' is a geminate" v
1: form by reduplication; "The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel"; "The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word" [syn: reduplicate, geminate]
2: occur in pairs [syn: pair, geminate]
3: arrange in pairs; "Pair these numbers" [syn: pair, geminate]
4: arrange or combine in pairs; "The consonants are geminated in these words"

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: Latin geminatus, past participle of geminare to double, from geminus twin Date: 15th century 1. arranged in pairs ; duplicate 2. being a sequence of identical speech sounds (as in meanness or Italian notte ?no?t-te “night”) II. verb (-nated; -nating) Date: circa 1637 transitive verb to make geminate intransitive verb to be or become geminate • gemination noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & v. --adj. combined in pairs. --v.tr. 1 double, repeat. 2 arrange in pairs. Derivatives: gemination n. Etymology: L geminatus past part. of geminare f. geminus twin

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Geminate Gem"i*nate, v. t. To double. [R.] --B. Jonson.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Geminate Gem"i*nate, a. [L. geminatus, p. p. of genimare to double. See Gemini.] (Bot.) In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers. --Gray.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. (Bot.) Doubled, twin, in pairs, binate.

Moby Thesaurus

Janus-like, ambidextrous, bifacial, bifold, biform, bilateral, binary, binate, biparous, bivalent, conduplicate, copy, disomatous, ditto, double, double-faced, dual, dupe, duple, duplex, duplicate, geminated, ingeminate, multiply by two, redouble, reduplicate, repeat, replicate, reproduce, second, secondary, twin, twinned, two-faced, two-level, two-ply, two-sided, two-story, twofold