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castellate en · ADJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ˈkastələt/

Etymology

From Medieval Latin castellātus (“fortified” “made into a castle”), from castellum (“little fortification, castle”) + -ātus (forming participial adjectives). By surface analysis, Latin castellum + -ate (adjective-forming suffix) or castle + -ate.

Meanings

1. (rare) castle-like: built or shaped like a castle.
   • ...The living porphyry, in towers around Grotesquely castellate... 1830, William Phillips, Mt. Sinai, i.212:
2. (rare) Castled: having or furnished with castles.
   • ...Heights castellate... 1864, Benjamin Disraeli, Revolutionary Epick, ii.xix.103:
3. (rare) Housed or kept in a castle.

Forms

Synonyms

castle · incastellated

castellate en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /ˈkastəleɪt/

Etymology

From Medieval Latin castellō (“fortify”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Meanings

1. (transitive) To make into a castle: to build in the form of a castle or to add battlements to an existing building.
   • The citizen who castellates a Villa at Richmond... 1840, Henry Taylor, chapter XX, in Autobiography, volume I, page 321:
2. (intransitive, rare) To take the form of a castle.
   • ...Clouds slowly castellating in a calm... 1831, Unimore, John Wilson, i.77:

Forms

Deriveds

decastellate

Relateds

castellation

Synonyms

encastellate · encastle · fortify · incastle · incastellate · castle

castellate en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

• /ˈkastələt/

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin castellātus. By surface analysis, castle + -ate (forming nouns denoting a rank or office, the concrete charge of this office).

Meanings

1. (historical, obsolete, rare) The district of a castle.
   • In the Castellate of Roger of Poictou... 1809, William Bawdwen translating the Domesday Book, p. 230

Forms

Synonyms

castlery · castellany