pectinate
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Latin pectinātus (“combed”), from pectinō (“I comb”), from pecten (“comb”). First attested in the mid-18th century.[1]
Adjective
[edit]pectinate (not comparable)
- Resembling a comb.
- Synonym: pectinated
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[edit]Verb
[edit]pectinate (third-person singular simple present pectinates, present participle pectinating, simple past and past participle pectinated)
- (transitive, intransitive) To fit together in an alternating manner; to interlock or interdigitate.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, “Compendiouſly of many queſtionable cuſtomes, opinions, pictures, practiſes, and popular obſervations”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 5th book, paragraph 9, page 266:
- To ſet croſſe legg’d, or with our fingers pectinated or ſhut together is accounted bad, and friends will perſwade us from it.
Etymology 2
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Noun
[edit]pectinate (plural pectinates)
- (chemistry) An ester or salt formed of pectinic acid.
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “pectinate”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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[edit]Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]pectināte
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