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sporulate en · VERB · etymology 1

Etymology

Etymology tree English sporule Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English sporulate From sporule + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Meanings

  1. (intransitive) To produce spores.
    • She was also their science teacher and had taught them about slime molds in biology class, about how the singular organisms came together to form a multicellular body in order to sporulate and reproduce, before breaking apart again. 2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), pages 95–96:
  2. (transitive) To convert into spores.
    • A part of the protoplasm is not sporulated but forms a capillitium. 1885, Edwin Ray Lankester, Encyclopædia Britannica, volume vol. XIX. 854/1:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
sporulates Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
sporulated Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
sporulated Tense=Past lexicographic
sporulating Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

resporulate · endosporulate · unsporulated · asporulated

Relateds

sporulation

sporulate en · ADJ · etymology 2

Etymology

Etymology tree English sporul(e) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English sporulate From sporul(e) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) That produces spores

Deriveds

auxosporulate