different between ingeminate vs ingerminate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from the participle stem of Latin ingemin? (“repeat, reiterate”).

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /?n?d??m.?.ne?t/
• (adjective) IPA^(key): /?n?d??m.?.n?t/

Verb

ingeminate (third-person singular simple present ingeminates, present participle ingeminating, simple past and past participle ingeminated)

1. (transitive) To say (a statement, word etc.) two or more times; to reiterate, to emphasize through repetition.
   • 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, II:

     we found a black pavillion; in it three old Arabians; who, out of their Alcoran ingeminated a dolefull requiem to their Brothers carcasse, over which they sat […]

Translations

Related terms

• ingemination

Adjective

ingeminate (comparative more ingeminate, superlative most ingeminate)

1. redoubled
   • 1642, Jeremy Taylor, The Sacred Order and Offices of Episcopacy or Episcopacy Asserted against the Arians and Acephali New and Old

     It is an ingeminate expression of our labours . And that supposes us to have faculties capable of improvement

2. reiterated

Anagrams

• matineeing

Latin

Participle

ingemin?te

1. vocative masculine singular of ingemin?tus

English

Etymology

in- +? germinate

Verb

ingerminate (third-person singular simple present ingerminates, present participle ingerminating, simple past and past participle ingerminated)

1. (transitive) To cause to germinate.