Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

endite en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From end- + -ite.

Meanings

  1. An additional lobe on the inner side of the protopodite of a crustacean limb.
  2. One of the mouthparts of a spider or other arachnids, specifically the lobe of the palpal coxa lateral to the labium.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
endites Number=Plur lexicographic

Antonyms

exite

Synonyms

maxilla

endite en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

See indite.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete form of indite.
    alt of indite
    • From a VVriter of Books, our Author is already dvvindled to a Preface-monger, and from Prefaces I am confident he may in a ſhort time be improved to endite Tickets for the Bear-Garden. 1672, [Andrew Marvell], The Rehearsal Transpros’d: Or, Animadversions upon a Late Book, Entituled, A Preface, Shewing what Grounds there are of Fears and Jealousies of Popery, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 4:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
endites Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
endited Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
endited Tense=Past lexicographic
enditing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Relateds

enditic