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malleate en · ADJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ˈmæl.i.eɪt/ (UK, US)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈmæl.i.ɪt/ (UK, US)

Etymology

First attested in 1884; from malleus + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Meanings

1. Possessing or resembling a malleus, or another structure shaped like a hammer.
   • Malleate trophi are present in such common rotifers as Brachionus, Keratella, and Lecane. 2009, James H. Thorp, Alan P. Covich, editors, Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, 3rd edition, page 181:
2. (of a shell) Having a surface with shallow round indentations, resembling copper that has been hammered.
   • The spire has stronger rib-striæ than C. bequaerti; last whorl finely and closely malleate, with several weak spiral threads. 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:

Forms

Translations (3)

ms maleat ((zoology) possessing or resembling a malleus) · la malleātus ((zoology) possessing or resembling a malleus) · la malleātus ((malacology) having a surface with shallow round indentations)

malleate en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈmæl.i.eɪt/ (UK, US)

Etymology

First attested in 1598; borrowed from Medieval Latin malleātus, perfect passive participle of malleō (“to beat with a hammer”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Meanings

1. (rare) To beat into shape with a hammer.
   • Man is a mechanic, and works beautiful forms out of natural organisms. He cuts, bores, malleates, melts, casts in matrices, and spins, various articles. 1878, James Milleson, The Embryonic System of Nature, page 12:

Forms

Relateds

malleably · malleability · mallet · malleableness · malleable

Translations (14)

nl behameren (to beat into shape with a hammer) · es forjar (to beat into shape with a hammer) · de schmieden (to beat into shape with a hammer) · ru кова́ть (to beat into shape with a hammer) · es martillar (to beat into shape with a hammer) · fi vasaroida (to beat into shape with a hammer) · hy կռել (to beat into shape with a hammer) · la malleō (to beat into shape with a hammer) · ru сплю́щивать (to beat into shape with a hammer) · nl uithameren (to beat into shape with a hammer) · de hämmern (to beat into shape with a hammer) · nl smeden (to beat into shape with a hammer) · nl hameren (to beat into shape with a hammer) · fi takoa (to beat into shape with a hammer)