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revolute en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin revolūtus, perfect passive participle of revolvō (“roll back”).

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Rolled or recurved on itself.
2. (not-comparable) Having the edges rolled with the abaxial side outward.

Deriveds

semirevolute · revolutely

Translations (4)

pl zawinięty (having the edges rolled with abaxial side outward) · it revoluto (having the edges rolled with abaxial side outward) · bg с извит надолу край (having the edges rolled with abaxial side outward) · ga aischasta (having the edges rolled with abaxial side outward)

revolute en · VERB · etymology 1

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin revolūtus, perfect passive participle of revolvō (“roll back”).

Meanings

1. to roll back, curve upwards

Forms

revolute en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

Back-formation from revolution.

Meanings

1. (rare) to participate in or incite a revolution or revolt
   • Christmas always thought himself a “patriotic American,” but, as he saw the matter, a little “revoluting” on behalf of his benefactors—Manuel Bonilla and Estrada Cabrera—in no sense harmed the interestes of the United States. 1996, Lester D. Langley, The Banana Men: American Mercenaries and Entrepreneurs in Central America, 1880-1930
   • The Hawaiians have ‘revoluted’ and dethroned the fat squaw they have hitherto chosen to call a queen. 1893, Daily Evening Expositor, editorial, January 28
   • 2004, Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Unspeakable Perk “Pins through scarabs,” she laughed, “while beneath you Caracuna riots and revolutes and massacres foreigners.
   • 2003, Ed McClanahan, Famous People I Have Known I rocked and rolled. I ingested illicit substances. I revoluted.
   • Achimota was Fraser’s life’s work, evidence that ‘the glorious West African people’ were gradually changing their conditions by ‘evolving not revoluting [sic]’. 2000, Barbara Bush, Imperialism, Race and Resistance: Africa and Britain 1919-1945

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