destinate

English

Etymology

Latin destinatus. Computing/postal use by analogy with originate.

Verb

destinate (third-person singular simple present destinates, present participle destinating, simple past and past participle destinated)

1. (possibly nonstandard) To destine, to choose.
2. (possibly nonstandard) To set a destination for (something), to send (something) to a particular destination.
   • 1997 September 11, Tom Watson, “Hoe does FX work?”, in comp.dcom.telecom.tech (Usenet):

     Now days, it can probably be done with a programming setup in the originating/destinating switches, and not involve a full time channel.

3. (possibly nonstandard) To be scheduled to arrive at, as a destination.
   • 2009, Statistical Abstract of the United States:

     Prices for a mail piece weighing up to a half-pound range from $12.60 if it destinates in zones 1 and 2 to $19.50 if it destinates in zone 8.

Synonyms

• (choose; set destination): destine

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “set destination”): originate

Adjective

destinate (comparative more destinate, superlative most destinate)

1. Determined.
2. (obsolete) Destined.
   • 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, “Certain Letters vvritten by M. Bradford to Other of His Frendes”, in Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC, book V, page [1262]:

     But because Christe dwelleth in you (as he doth by faithe) therfore stirreth he vp his first begoten sonne, the world, to seke how to disquiet you, to robbe you, to spoile you, to destroy you: and perchance your deare father, to trye and to make knowen vnto you, and to þe world, that ye are destinate to an other dwellyng then here on earthe, to an other citye then mannes eyes hath sene at any tyme: […]

Related terms

• destination
• destine
• destiny

Anagrams

• detainest, tetanised

Italian

Etymology 1

Adjective

destinate f pl

1. feminine plural of destinato

Participle

destinate f pl

1. feminine plural of destinato

Etymology 2

Verb

destinate

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

Anagrams

• sdentiate, stendiate

Latin

Verb

dēstināte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēstinō

Participle

dēstināte

1. vocative masculine singular of dēstinātus

References

• “destinate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• destinate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Verb

destinate

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