different between narrate vs articulate

English

Etymology

In English (recorded only since 1656, but until the 19th century stigmatized as 'Scottish') apparently from narration.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /n???e?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?næ?e?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Verb

narrate (third-person singular simple present narrates, present participle narrating, simple past and past participle narrated)

1. (transitive) To relate (a story or series of events) in speech or writing.

   Synonym: tell

2. To give an account. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

   Synonym: report

Derived terms

• aforenarrated

Related terms

Translations

Italian

Verb 1

narrate

1. second-person plural present indicative of narrare
2. second-person plural imperative of narrare

Verb 2

narrate

1. feminine plural of the past participle of narrare

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /na?r?ra?.te/, [nä?r?rä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /nar?ra.te/, [n?r?r??t??]

Verb

n?rr?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of n?rr?

Participle

n?rr?te

1. vocative masculine singular of n?rr?tus

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin articul?tus (“distinct, articulated, jointed”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ärt?'ky?l?t, IPA^(key): /??(?)?t?k.j?.l?t/
• (US) enPR: ärt?'ky?l?t, IPA^(key): /????t?k.j?.l?t/
• Rhymes: -?kj?l?t
• Rhymes: -?kj?le?t

Adjective

articulate (comparative more articulate, superlative most articulate)

1. Clear; effective.
2. Speaking in a clear and effective manner.

3. Consisting of segments united by joints.

4. Distinctly marked off.

5. (obsolete) Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

   • articulate sounds

6. (obsolete, of sound) Related to human speech, as distinct from the vocalisation of animals.
   • 1728, James Knapton and John Knapton, Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, page 146:

     Brutes cannot form articulate Sounds, cannot articulate the Sounds of the Voice, excepting some few Birds, as the Parrot, Pye, &c.

Synonyms

• (good at speaking): eloquent, well-spoken

Translations

Noun

articulate (plural articulates)

1. (zoology) An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.
   • 1977, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History)

     They considered articulates to be pre-adapted for an eleutherozoic existence because they possess muscular arms which are potentially of value in crawling and swimming, as in comatulids.

Etymology 2

From the adjective.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ärt?'ky?l?t, IPA^(key): /??(?)?t?k.j?.le?t/
• (US) enPR: ärt?'ky?l?t, IPA^(key): /????t?k.j?.le?t/

Verb

articulate (third-person singular simple present articulates, present participle articulating, simple past and past participle articulated)

1. To make clear or effective.
2. To speak clearly; to enunciate.

   I wish he’d articulate his words more clearly.

3. To explain; to put into words; to make something specific.

   I like this painting, but I can’t articulate why.

4. To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend.

   an articulated bus

5. (music) to attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc.

   Articulate that passage heavily.

6. (anatomy) to form a joint or connect by joints

   The lower jaw articulates with the skull at the temporomandibular joint.

7. (obsolete) To treat or make terms.

Derived terms

• articulable

Related terms

• articulation
• pseudoarticulated
• pseudoarticulation

Translations

Further reading

• articulate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• articulate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Latin

Verb

articul?te

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

References

• articulate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• articulate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette