different between menstruate vs menstruator

English

Etymology

menstruum +? -ate; sense 2 (“to undergo menstruation”) is possibly a back-formation from menstruation.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?nst??e?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?nst?u?e?t/, /?m?nst???we?t/, /?m?n?st?e?t/ (the latter pronunciation leading to the spelling menstrate)
• Rhymes: -e?t
• Hyphenation: men?stru?ate

Verb

menstruate (third-person singular simple present menstruates, present participle menstruating, simple past and past participle menstruated)

1. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To stain with or as if with menses.
2. (intransitive) To undergo menstruation, to have a period.

   Synonyms: be on one's period, be on the rag

Alternative forms

• menstrate (nonstandard, possibly proscribed)

Related terms

• menstrual
• menstruation
• menstruator
• menstruous

Translations

Adjective

menstruate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Menstrual.

References

Further reading

• menstruation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• tsunameter

Italian

Verb

menstruate

1. second-person plural present indicative of menstruare
2. second-person plural imperative of menstruare
3. feminine plural of the past participle of menstruare

Latin

Verb

m?nstru?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of m?nstru?

English

Alternative forms

• menstruater

Etymology

menstruate +? -or

Noun

menstruator (plural menstruators)

1. A person who menstruates.
   • 2011, Chris Bobel, Samantha Kwan, Embodied Resistance: Challenging the Norms, Breaking the Rules

     Today she would probably be diagnosed with menorrhagia or Von Willbrand disease, a rare blood-clotting disorder, but then, she would have been viewed as a perpetual menstruator, eternally unclean, contaminating, and forbidden to have contact with any man.

Anagrams

• Armentrouts

Latin

Verb

m?nstru?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of m?nstru?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of m?nstru?