coacervate

English

Etymology

From Latin coacervātus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəʊəˈsɜːvət/

Adjective

coacervate (comparative more coacervate, superlative most coacervate)

1. (obsolete) Clumped together, clustered.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     The ninth is the collocation of the spirits in bodies, whether the collocation be equal or unequal ; and again, whether the spirits be coacervate or diffused.

Noun

coacervate (plural coacervates)

1. (biochemistry, physical chemistry, organic chemistry) The microsphere droplet that results from coacervation.

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

coacervate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

coacervate f pl

1. feminine plural of coacervato

Latin

Verb

coacervāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of coacervō