federate

English

Alternative forms

• fœderate (archaic)

Pronunciation

• (adjective, noun) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛdəɹət/

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• (verb) IPA^(key): /ˈfɛdəɹeɪt/

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Adjective

federate (not comparable)

1. Federated, united in an alliance or federation.

Translations

Translations

• French: fédéré (fr) m, fédérée (fr) f

Noun

federate (plural federates)

1. A member of a federation.
   • 1964, Alberico Gentili, De iure belli libri tres, volume 2:

     But I do not admit that there is an opportunity for such a choice (whatever Baldus and Romanus may do) against one of two federates to the advantage of the other. 'If he cannot aid one without injury to the other, it is better not to help the one than to do harm to the other', as the words of Ambrose run; and that is the sense of the law and the rule which rates the avoidance of harm above the consideration of gain. What if, in order to benefit one federate, it is necessary to wrong the other doubly ? If two brothers who are lords of a feudal subject wage war upon each other, the vassal is bound to aid neither of them, since they mutually oppose each other, says Baldus. And allies mutually interfere with one another, as happens in other cases, which Romanus notes.

2. Anglicised form of Latin foederatus.
3. (computer simulation) a system participating in a collective simulation, particularly within the context of the HLA (High Level Architecture) standard.
   • 2016, Okan Topçu, Umut Durak, Halit Oğuztüzün, Distributed Simulation: A Model Driven Engineering Approach:

     A Federate (Application) can be defined as an application that implements or conforms to the HLA standard.

Translations

Translations

• French: fédéré (fr) m, fédérée (fr) f

Verb

federate (third-person singular simple present federates, present participle federating, simple past and past participle federated)

1. To unite in a federation.

Translations

Translations

• French: fédérer (fr)
• German: föderieren
• Ido: federar (io)
• Irish: cónaidhmigh, cónasc (ga)
• Spanish: federar (es)
• Turkish: birleştirmek (tr)

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “federate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• defeater, redefeat

Italian

Etymology 1

Adjective

federate

1. feminine plural of federato

Participle

federate f pl

1. feminine plural of federato

Etymology 2

Verb

federate

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

Spanish

Verb

federate

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