different between menstruater vs menstruate

English

Etymology

menstruate +? -er

Noun

menstruater (plural menstruaters)

1. Alternative form of menstruator.
   • 1959, Alan F. Guttmacher, Babies by Choice or by Chance, Doubleday (1959), page 50:

     Rhythm is the least efficient of the contraceptive methods thus far discussed, because of the variability of the menses even in regular menstruaters, […]

   • 1996, John Kerrigan, Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon, Clarendon Press (1996), ?ISBN, page 55:

     The menstruater is defiled and defiling because, as she bleeds, she strays beyond the socialized towards the realm of death.

   • 1999, James A. Boon, Verging on Extra-vagance: Anthropology, History, Religion, Literature, Arts ... Showbiz, Princeton University Press (1999), ?ISBN, page 30:

     Benedict announces the topic of girls' puberty by sketching various rites of passage that display dramatic practices of purity/pollution: first, Carrier Indians who figuratively bury alive novice menstruaters, isolating them for three years; second, Apache attitudes about first menses as occasions for supernatural sources of beneficial cure.

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?