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oblate en · ADJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ɒˈbleɪt/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈɒbleɪt/ (UK)
• /ˈɑbleɪt/ (US)

Etymology

From French oblat and its source, Ecclesiastical Latin oblātus (“person dedicated to religious life”), nominalization of oblātus, perfect passive participle of offerō (“to offer”); see -ate (noun-forming suffix).

Meanings

1. (capitalized, not-comparable) Designating a person who is an oblate, of or belonging to an order of oblates.
   • an Oblate Father

Relateds

oblation · offer · offering

oblate en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ɒˈbleɪt/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈɒbleɪt/ (UK)
• /ˈɑbleɪt/ (US)

Etymology

From French oblat and its source, Ecclesiastical Latin oblātus (“person dedicated to religious life”), nominalization of oblātus, perfect passive participle of offerō (“to offer”); see -ate (noun-forming suffix).

Meanings

1. A person dedicated to a life of religion or monasticism, especially a member of an order without religious vows or a lay member of a religious community.
2. A child given up by its parents into the keeping or dedication of a religious order or house.
   • 2007, The Venerable Bede started as an oblate at St Paul's, Jarrow, but by the time of his death in 735 was surely the most learned man in Europe. — Tom Shippey, ‘I Lerne Song’, London Review of Books 29:4, p. 19

Forms

oblate en · ADJ · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ɒˈbleɪt/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈɒbleɪt/ (UK)
• /ˈɑbleɪt/ (US)

Etymology

From Late Latin oblātus, from Latin ob (“in front of, before”) + lātus (“broad, wide”), (modeled after prōlātus (“extended, lengthened”)).

Meanings

1. Flattened or depressed at the poles.
   • The Earth is an oblate spheroid.
   • Why should I not speak to him or to any human being who walks upright upon this oblate orange? 1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:
   • ’Tis prolate, still,’ with a long dejected Geordie O. ‘Isn’t it…?’ ‘I’m an Astronomer,– trust me, ’tis gone well to oblate.’ 1997, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 39, in Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part Two: America, page 392:

Forms

Antonyms

prolate

Deriveds

suboblate · oblate spheroid · oblateness · oblately · nonoblate

Relateds

oblatum · equidimensional

Translations (3)

tr basık (Flattened or depressed at the poles) · fr aplati (Flattened or depressed at the poles) · pt oblato (Flattened or depressed at the poles)

oblate en · VERB · etymology 3

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ɒˈbleɪt/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈɒbleɪt/ (UK)
• /ˈɑbleɪt/ (US)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin oblātus, perfect passive participle of offerō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of offer.

Meanings

1. (rare) To offer as either a gift or an oblation.

Forms

Relateds

oblation · offer · offering