Dictionary

furcate en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈfɝ.kɪt/ (US)
• /ˈfɝ.keɪt/ (US)
• /ˈfɜː.kət/ (UK)
• /ˈfɜː.keɪt/ (UK)
• /ˈfɝ.kət/ (US)

Etymology

From Medieval Latin furcātus (“forked, branched”), from Latin furca (“fork”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French fourchu. The verb was formed by metanalysis or as if from Latin furcō (“to fork”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Forked, branched; divided at one end into parts.

Deriveds

quadrifurcate · multifurcate · unfurcate

Synonyms

cloven · forked

Translations (8)

fr bifurqué (forked, branched) · fi haaroittunut (forked, branched) · bg раздвоен (forked, branched) · ru разветвлённый (forked, branched) · es ahorquillado (forked, branched) · fi haarautunut (forked, branched) · bg чаталест (forked, branched) · fi haaroitettu (forked, branched)

furcate en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈfɝ.keɪt/ (US)
• /ˈfɜː.keɪt/ (UK)
• /fɜːˈkeɪt/ (UK)

Etymology

From Medieval Latin furcātus (“forked, branched”), from Latin furca (“fork”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French fourchu. The verb was formed by metanalysis or as if from Latin furcō (“to fork”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Meanings

1. To fork or branch out.
   • These ridges are prominent, about the thickness of a coarse thread, very numerous, irregular, and run into one another, but towards the bottom, always furcate or divide. 1778, Emanuel Mendes Da Costa, Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniaeor, or The British conchology, page 173:
   • But that which I believe yields a great deal of our turpentine, is the fir-tree or deal, which is a coniferous tree, evergreen, whose cones are of the lesser sort, having long leaves, either that whose leaves encompass and cover the branches, bearing long cones hanging downwards as she male fir-tree or pitch-tree; or that whose leaves grow from each side of the stalk, being more flat than those of yew, green on the upper side, and whitish underneath, furcated at the end, bearing cones shorter and thicker, growing erect, as the female fir-tree. 1700 May 17, John Houghton, Husbandry and trade improv'd, number 408:
   • In Dyticus it even furcates, and with both prongs of the fork it encloses the intestine, and lower down the nervous cord 1836, Hermann Burmeister, A Manual of entomology, page 239:
   • Descending keel of the pronotum, which divides into two furcating lamella 1836, Hermann Burmeister, A Manual of entomology, page 641:

Forms

Deriveds

furcately · furcation

Relateds

bifurcate

Translations (8)

fi haaroittaa (to fork or branch out) · es ahorquillar (to fork or branch out) · bg разклонявам (to fork or branch out) · fi haarautua (to fork or branch out) · fr se diviser (to fork or branch out) · fr bifurquer (to fork or branch out) · ru разветвляться (to fork or branch out) · bg раздвоявам (to fork or branch out)