malleate

See also: maleate

English

WOTD – 23 August 2012

Etymology

From Latin malleātus, perfect passive participle of *malleō (“beat with a hammer”), related to malleus (“a hammer, mallet”).

Pronunciation

• (adjective): (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈmæl.i.ɪt/, /ˈmæl.i.eɪt/

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• (verb): (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈmæl.i.eɪt/

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Adjective

malleate (comparative more malleate, superlative most malleate)

1. (zoology) Possessing or resembling a malleus, or another structure shaped like a hammer.
   • 2009, James H. Thorp, Alan P. Covich, editors, Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, 3rd edition, page 181:

     Malleate trophi are present in such common rotifers as Brachionus, Keratella, and Lecane.

2. (malacology, of a shell) Having a surface with shallow round indentations, resembling copper that has been hammered.
   • 1919, Henry Augustus Pilsbry, “A Review of the Land Mollusks of the Belgian Congo”, in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, number 40, page 313:

     The spire has stronger rib-striæ than C. bequaerti; last whorl finely and closely malleate, with several weak spiral threads.

Translations

(zoology) possessing or resembling a malleus

• Latin: malleātus
• Malay: maleat

(malacology) having a surface with shallow round indentations

• Latin: malleātus

Verb

malleate (third-person singular simple present malleates, present participle malleating, simple past and past participle malleated)

1. (rare) To beat into shape with a hammer.
   • 1878, James Milleson, The Embryonic System of Nature, page 12:

     Man is a mechanic, and works beautiful forms out of natural organisms. He cuts, bores, malleates, melts, casts in matrices, and spins, various articles.

Translations

to beat into shape with a hammer

• Armenian: կռել (hy) (kṙel)
• Dutch: uithameren, behameren, hameren (nl), smeden (nl)
• Finnish: vasaroida (fi), takoa (fi)
• German: hämmern (de), schmieden (de)
• Latin: malleō
• Russian: кова́ть (ru) (kovátʹ), сплю́щивать (ru) (spljúščivatʹ)
• Spanish: martillar (es), forjar (es)

See also

• forge
• hammer

Related terms

• malleability
• malleable
• malleableness
• malleably
• mallet

Further reading

• “malleate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “malleate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “malleate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Latin

Verb

malleāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of malleō