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English

Etymology

(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) From intercalate

Noun

intercalation (countable and uncountable, plural intercalations)

1. A period inserted into a calendar as in a leap year.
2. (chemistry) The reversible insertion of a molecule between two others.
3. (geology) A layer introduced into a pre-existing sequence.

Related terms

• intercalant
• intercalate
• intercalary
• intercalated

Translations

See also

Anagrams

• interactional

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.t??.ka.la.sj??/

Noun

intercalation f (plural intercalations)

1. intercalation

Related terms

• intercalaire
• intercaler

Further reading

• “intercalation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin intercal?tus (perfect passive participle of intercal? (“I proclaim that something has been intercalated, I insert”)), from inter- (“between, among”) +? calo (“I call, I proclaim”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?t??.k?l.e?t/, /??n.t?.k??le?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?t?.k??le?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?t

Verb

intercalate (third-person singular simple present intercalates, present participle intercalating, simple past and past participle intercalated)

1. To insert an extra leap day into a calendar in order to maintain synchrony with natural phenomena.
   • 1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: Second Series, ch. 2:

     '[T]is wonderful where or when we ever got anything of this which we call wisdom, poetry, virtue. We never got it on any dated calendar day. Some heavenly days must have been intercalated somewhere.
2. To insert an extra month into a calendar for the same purpose. The Hebrew calendar has such a month.
3. (molecular biology) To insert a substance between two or more molecules, bases, cells, or tissues.
4. To insert anything somewhere (especially between other things), such as an affix into a word. (Compare interpolate.)
   • 1828, The British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and Ecclesiastical Record, page 56:

     ... the personal pronouns which form the terminations of the verb, or by an intercalated suffix, the nature and relation of its objects and its subject , and to distinguish whether the object be animate or inanimate, ...

   • 1894, William Winston Valentine, Phonology and morphology, page 361:

     Sometimes f or s is intercalated to lighten the pronunciation : kommen, Kunft ; können, Kunst ; […]

   • 1969, Romance Philology, volume 23, page 298:

     -erole ? -er- (< -ÅR) + -ole ( < -EOLU): maierole. A lengthened var. of -ole, this suffix appears in the late Middle Ages, formed through “false division”, namely the secondary rapprochement of, say, bannerole (banniere + -ole) or casserole with ban- or cass-. Is the -er- […] intercalated for rhythmic of differentiatory purposes? This "interfix" conveys no semantic message: It simply serves as an occasionally handy grammatical tool.

   • 1971, Moses Gaster, Studies and Texts in Folklore, Magic, Mediaeval Romance, Hebrew Apocrypha, and Samaritan Archaeology, KTAV Publishing House, Inc. (?ISBN), page 455:

     ... they were interpreted and modified in the light of Pythagorean harmonies and other mystical manipulations of vowels and letters. The intercalated letters are intended to be the first ten letters of the alphabet as in line 602ff.

   • 2010, John Wesley Tunnell, Encyclopedia of Texas Seashells: Identification, Ecology, Distribution, and History, Texas A&M University Press (?ISBN), page 111:

     Description: Color translucent white; shell cap shaped; sculpture of approximately 40 radiating ribs with intercalated threads alternating between ribs; concentric ribs intersecting radial ribs; anal fasciole relatively short, […]

Derived terms

• deintercalate
• intercalary
• intercalation

Translations

See also

References

• “intercalate”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “intercalate”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Italian

Verb

intercalate

1. second-person plural present indicative of intercalare
2. second-person plural imperative of intercalare
3. feminine plural of intercalato

Anagrams

• anelettrica, intratecale

Latin

Verb

intercal?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of intercal?