different between osculate vs oscular

English

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Latin ?scul?tus (“kiss”), from ?s + -culus (“little mouth”).

Verb

osculate (third-person singular simple present osculates, present participle osculating, simple past and past participle osculated)

1. (transitive) To kiss someone or something.
2. (mathematics) To touch so as to have a common tangent at the point of contact.
3. (intransitive) To make contact.
4. (Vedic arithmetic) To perform osculation.
5. To form a connecting link between two genera.

Derived terms

• osculation
• osculating
• osculatory

Adjective

osculate (not comparable)

1. Relating to kissing.

Anagrams

• lacteous, locustae, scale out, scaleout

Italian

Verb

osculate

1. second-person plural present indicative of osculare
2. second-person plural imperative of osculare
3. feminine plural of osculato

Latin

Participle

?scul?te

1. vocative masculine singular of ?scul?tus

English

Adjective

oscular (comparative more oscular, superlative most oscular)

1. Of or pertaining to the mouth.

Related terms

• osculate
• osculum

Anagrams

• Carolus, Lacours, oculars

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin ?scul?r?, present active infinitive of ?sculor.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /oskul?a?/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /oskul?a?/
• Hyphenation: os?cu?lar

Verb

oscular (first-person singular present indicative osculo, past participle osculado)

1. (rare) to kiss, to osculate

   Synonym: beijar

Conjugation

References

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