different between constate vs nonstate

English

Etymology

From French constater.

Verb

constate (third-person singular simple present constates, present participle constating, simple past and past participle constated)

1. (linguistics) To relay information in a statement and say whether it is true or false.
2. To ascertain; to verify; to establish; to prove.
   • 1859, Frances Power Cobbe, An Essay on Intuitive Morals

     It need be no concern of his how we come, through the joint action of our double nature, to apprehend at first those truths which, when apprehended, he knows to be necessary. The metaphysician has only to constate such facts ; it is the business of the psychologist to explain them.

   • 1948, Acta psychiatrica et neurologica: Supplementum

     Above all, he has thought himself able to constate a preparoxysmal increase of albumin, from which he has drawn far-reaching conclusions.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??s.tat/
• Homophones: constatent, constates

Verb

constate

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of constater
2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of constater
3. second-person singular imperative of constater

Anagrams

• contâtes, contesta

Italian

Verb

constate

1. second-person plural present indicative of constare
2. second-person plural imperative of constare
3. feminine plural of constato

Anagrams

• contaste, contesta, costante, scontate

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kon?sta?.te/, [kõ??s?t?ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kon?sta.te/, [k?n?st???t??]

Verb

c?nst?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of c?nst?

Portuguese

Verb

constate

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of constatar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of constatar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of constatar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of constatar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kons?tate/, [kõns?t?a.t?e]

Verb

constate

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of constatar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of constatar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of constatar.

English

Etymology

From non- +? state.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n?n?ste?t/

Adjective

nonstate (not comparable)

1. Not constituting or belonging to a state; not characterised by the institutional power or authority of an organized government.
   • 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, page 49:

     The nonstate peoples we are most familiar with are the hunters and gatherers living in small bands like the ?Kung San of the Kalahari Desert and the Inuit of the Arctic.

   • 2013, Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian, 12 April 2013:

     More than 70 non-state armed groups were recorded as using the weapons, including 12 that fired rockets and mortars from Gaza into Israel.

Derived terms

• nonstate actor

Noun

nonstate (plural nonstates)

1. A sociopolitical entity other than a state.
   • 2005, Ann Hironaka, Neverending wars:

     States that fail to sufficiently attend to the "imagined" attributes of statehood required by the international system risk being deemed nonstates by the international community...