consolate

English

Etymology

Latin consolatus, p.p. See console (transitive verb). Back-formation from disconsolate.

Adjective

consolate (comparative more consolate, superlative most consolate)

1. (obsolete) Comforted, consoled.
2. (humorous) Not disconsolate; contented.
   • 1818, Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey, section I:

     [O]ne morning, like Sir Leoline in Christabel, ‘he woke and found his lady dead,’ and remained a very consolate widower, with one small child.

Derived terms

• inconsolate

 

Verb

consolate (third-person singular simple present consolates, present participle consolating, simple past and past participle consolated)

1. (obsolete or nonstandard) To console; to comfort.
   • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     To consolate thine eare.

   • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Virago Press (2018), page 44:

     ‘You just talkinʼ to consolate yoʼself by word of mouth.’

References

• “consolate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• colonates, stone coal

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

consolate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

consolate f pl

1. feminine plural of consolato

Anagrams

• scatolone

Latin

Participle

cōnsōlāte

1. vocative masculine singular of cōnsōlātus

Spanish

Verb

consolate

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