bituminate

English

Etymology

Latin bitūminātus, past participle of bitūminō (“I bituminate”), from bitūmen.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɪˈtjuːmɪneɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /bəˈtuməneɪt/

Verb

bituminate (third-person singular simple present bituminates, present participle bituminating, simple past and past participle bituminated)

1. (transitive) To treat or impregnate with bitumen.
   • 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:

     Bituminated walls of Babylon.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bituminate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

bituminate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

bituminate f pl

1. feminine plural of bituminato