librate

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English

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Etymology 1

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From Medieval Latin lībrāta, from Latin lībra (pound).

Noun

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librate (plural librates)

  1. (now historical) A piece of land having a value of one pound per year.

Etymology 2

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A librating molecule.

From the participle stem of Latin lībrāre, from lībra (a balance).

Verb

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librate (third-person singular simple present librates, present participle librating, simple past and past participle librated)

  1. (intransitive) To oscillate (like the beam of a balance).
    • 2002 October 18, S. J. Peale, Man Hoi Lee, “A Primordial Origin of the Laplace Relation Among the Galilean Satellites”, in Science, volume 298, number 5593, →DOI, page 594:
      The currently observed orbital resonances at the 2:1 mean motion commensurabilities involving Io-Europa and Europa-Ganymede are such that the resonance variables and librate about 0° and librates about 180°, all with small amplitude.
    • 1796, William Cliffton, The Group:
      Their parts all librate on too nice a beam.
  2. (intransitive) To be poised; to balance oneself.
    • 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 138:
      Her playful Sea-horse [] His watery way with waving volutes wins, / Or listening librates on unmoving fins.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To place in a balance; to weigh.
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Translations
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References

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  • OED 2nd edition 1989

Anagrams

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Italian

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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librate

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

Etymology 2

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Participle

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librate f pl

  1. feminine plural of librato

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Latin

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Participle

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lībrāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of lībrātus

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Spanish

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Verb

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librate

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