different between originate vs destinate

English

Etymology

From (the participle stem of) Late Latin *originare (“to begin, give rise to”), from Latin or?g? (“origin”).

Morphologically origin +? -ate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????d??ne?t/
• Hyphenation: ori?gi?nate

Verb

originate (third-person singular simple present originates, present participle originating, simple past and past participle originated)

1. (transitive) To cause (someone or something) to be; to bring (someone or something) into existence; to produce or initiate a person or thing. [from 17th c.]
   • 1998, James Hebert, "Banderas puts his mark on 'Zorro'", San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Jul 1998:

     For the first time since Douglas Fairbanks Sr. originated the role in the 1920 silent "The Mark of Zorro," the hero will be played by a Hispanic actor.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, page 171:

     The financial backers who originated the Encyclopédie project in 1745 had no idea about what they were getting into.
2. (intransitive) To come into existence; to have origin or beginning; to spring, be derived (from, with). [from 18th c.]

   The scheme originated with the governor and council.

Synonyms

• (to bring into existence): begin, initiate; see also Thesaurus:begin
• (to come into existence): spring to life, take shape; see also Thesaurus:come into being
• (to make or fabricate): coin

Antonyms

• terminate
• end
• destinate (computing)

Related terms

• origin
• original
• origination
• originator

Translations

Further reading

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

Italian

Verb

originate

1. second-person plural present of originare
2. second-person plural imperative of originare
3. feminine plural past participle of originare

Anagrams

• iatrogeni
• ignoriate

English

Etymology

Latin destinatus. Computing use by analogy with originate.

Verb

destinate (third-person singular simple present destinates, present participle destinating, simple past and past participle destinated)

1. To destine, to choose.
2. (possibly nonstandard) To set a destination for (something), to send (something) to a particular destination.
   • 1997 September 11, "Tom Watson", Hoe does FX work?, in comp.dcom.telecom.tech, Usenet:

     Now days, it can probably be done with a programming setup in the originating/destinating switches, and not involve a full time channel.

3. (possibly nonstandard) To be scheduled to arrive at, as a destination.
   • 2009, Statistical Abstract of the United States

     Prices for a mail piece weighing up to a half-pound range from $12.60 if it destinates in zones 1 and 2 to $19.50 if it destinates in zone 8.

Synonyms

• (choose; set destination): destine

Antonyms

• (set destination): originate

Adjective

destinate (comparative more destinate, superlative most destinate)

1. determined
2. (obsolete) destined
   • 1563, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments

     They hold, moreover, to be no purgatory, nor that the suffrages of the church do avail the dead, either to lessen the pain of them that be destinate to hell, or to increase the glory of them that be ordained to salvation.

Related terms

• destination
• destine
• destiny

Anagrams

• detainest, tetanised

Italian

Adjective

destinate

1. feminine plural of destinato

Participle

destinate f pl

1. feminine plural of destinato

Verb

destinate

1. inflection of destinare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Anagrams

• sdentiate
• stendiate

Latin

Verb

d?stin?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of d?stin?

Participle

d?stin?te

1. vocative masculine singular of d?stin?tus

References

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