imbricate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin imbricātus (“tiled”).

Adjective

imbricate (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of imbricated (“overlapping”)
   • 1903, George Francis Atkinson, chapter VII, in Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.‎^[1], 2nd edition, New York: Henry Holt:

     The pileus is sessile, or sometimes narrowed at the base into a short stem, the caps often numerous and crowded together in an overlapping or imbricate manner.

Verb

imbricate (third-person singular simple present imbricates, present participle imbricating, simple past and past participle imbricated)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To overlap in a regular pattern.
2. (linguistics) To undergo or cause to undergo imbrication.

Related terms

• imbrication

Translations

overlap in a regular pattern

• Bulgarian: нареждам със застъпване (nareždam sǎs zastǎpvane)
• Catalan: imbricar (ca)
• French: imbriquer (fr)
• Icelandic: skara
• Portuguese: imbricar (pt)
• Spanish: imbricar (es)

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /im.briˈkaː.te/, [ɪmbrɪˈkäːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /im.briˈka.te/, [imbriˈkäːt̪e]

Participle

imbricāte

1. vocative masculine singular of imbricātus

Verb

imbricāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of imbricō

Spanish

Verb

imbricate

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