different between legate vs endow

English

Etymology

From late Old English, from Old French legat, from Latin legatus (nominal use of perfect passive participle of lego (“bequeath, send as envoy”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l???t/, /?l???t/
• Rhymes: -???t, -???t

Noun

legate (plural legates)

1. A deputy representing the pope, specifically a papal ambassador sent on special ecclesiastical missions.
2. An ambassador or messenger.
   • 1965, John Fowles, The Magus:

     The dark figure on the raised white terrace; legate of the sun facing the sun; the most ancient royal power.

3. The deputy of a provincial governor or general in ancient Rome.

Translations

Verb

legate (third-person singular simple present legates, present participle legating, simple past and past participle legated)

1. (transitive) To leave as a legacy.

Anagrams

• Teagle, eaglet, gelate, teagle, telega

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le??ate/
• Rhymes: -ate

Adverb

legate

1. present adverbial passive participle of legi

Italian

Adjective

legate

1. feminine plural of legato

Noun

legate f pl

1. plural of legata

Verb

legate

1. second-person plural present indicative of legare
2. second-person plural imperative of legare
3. feminine plural of legato

Anagrams

• gelate

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /le???a?.te/, [??e???ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /le??a.te/, [l?????t??]

Noun

l?g?te

1. vocative singular of l?g?tus

Participle

l?g?te

1. vocative masculine singular of l?g?tus

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English endowen, endouen, enduen, indouen, indw (“to provide with assets, a livelihood, or privileges; to bestow, grant; (figuratively) to favour; to endow”), from Anglo-Norman endouer, from Old French en- (prefix meaning ‘in, into’) + douer (“to endow”) (from Latin d?t?re (present active infinitive of d?t? (“to endow”)); modern French douer). D?t? is derived from d?s (“dowry; endowment, gift”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deh?- (“to give”)) + -? (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?da?/, /?n-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?da?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Hyphenation: en?dow

Verb

endow (third-person singular simple present endows, present participle endowing, simple past and past participle endowed)

1. (transitive, archaic or obsolete) To provide with a dower (“the portion that a widow receives from her deceased husband's property”) or a dowry (“property given to a bride”).
2. (transitive) To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits.
3. (transitive) Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality.

   Synonym: begift
4. (transitive) Usually in the passive: to naturally furnish (with something).

   Synonyms: bless, gift

Conjugation

Alternative forms

• indow (obsolete)

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• financial endowment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Downe, Woden, downe, nowed, owned, woned