ostentate

English

Etymology

From Latin ostentātus, past participle of ostentō, intensive from ostendō. See ostent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɒstənteɪt/

Verb

ostentate (third-person singular simple present ostentates, present participle ostentating, simple past and past participle ostentated)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To make an ambitious display of; to exhibit or show boastingly.

   Synonym: (obsolete) ostent

   • 1701, John Gauden (attributed), Several Letters between Two Ladies Wherein the Lawfulness and Unlawfulness of Artificial Beauty:

     It cannot avoid the brand of arrogancy, as well as hypocrisy, to challenge and ostentate that beauty or handsomeness of complexion as ours, which indeed is none of ours by any genuine right or property.

References

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

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

ostentate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

ostentate f pl

1. feminine plural of ostentato

Latin

Participle

ostentāte

1. vocative masculine singular of ostentātus

Spanish

Verb

ostentate

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