FromLatinagglūtinātus, past participle ofagglūtināre,adglūtināre(“to glue or cement to a thing”), fromad(“to”) +glūtināre(“to glue”), fromglūten(“paste, glue”).
- (adjective, noun)IPA(key): /əˈɡluːtɪnət/
- IPA(key): (verb)/əˈɡluːtɪneɪt/
agglutinate
- United withglue or as with glue; cemented together.
- (linguistics) Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning.
anagglutinate language
anagglutinate family of languages
united with or as with glue
linguistics: consisting of root words combined with affixes
agglutinate (third-person singular simple presentagglutinates,present participleagglutinating,simple past and past participleagglutinated)
- (transitive) Tounite, or cause toadhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.
- (linguistics) To form throughagglutination.
to unite with or as with glue
linguistics: to form through agglutination
agglutinate (countable anduncountable,pluralagglutinates)
- (countable) Aclump ofagglutinatedmaterial.
In some soils,agglutinates are a major constituent.
- (uncountable)Agglutinatedmaterial.
The formation ofagglutinate is more abundant in mature regolith.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “agglutinate”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
- “agglutinate”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- “agglutinate”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
agglutinate
- inflection ofagglutinare:
- second-personpluralpresentindicative
- second-personpluralimperative
agglutinate f pl
- feminineplural ofagglutinato
agglūtināte
- second-personpluralpresentactiveimperative ofagglūtinō
