different between crenellated vs crenellate

English

Alternative forms

• crenelated

Verb

crenellated

1. simple past tense and past participle of crenellate

Adjective

crenellated (comparative more crenellated, superlative most crenellated)

1. Having crenellations or battlements
2. Having a series of square indentations

Quotations

• 2001 — Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, p 52

  She could see the town below her, nestled on top of a low hill, surrounded by a crenellated wall from the Middle Ages.

English

Etymology

From French créneler (“to form the shape of a crenel, crenellate”) + English -ate (suffix forming verbs meaning ‘to act in the specified manner’). Créneler is derived from Old French crenel (“crenel, embrasure”) (modern French créneau) (from Latin *cr?nella, diminutive of cr?na (“incision; notch”); compare Old French cren (“a notch”)) + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first conjugation verbs). The English word is analysable as crenel +? -ate.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??n?le?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??n??le?t/
• Hyphenation: cre?nel?late

Verb

crenellate (third-person singular simple present crenellates, present participle crenellating, simple past and past participle crenellated)

1. To furnish with crenelles.
2. To indent; to notch.

Alternative forms

• crenelate (US)

Derived terms

• crenellated (adjective)
• crenellated moulding
• crenellation

Translations

References

Further reading

• battlement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia