curvateadj.

Brit.

/ˈkəːveɪt/, U.S.

/ˈkərˌveɪt/

Forms: late Middle English–1500s curuate, 1600s curvat, 1700s– curvate.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin curvātus, curvāre.

Etymology: < classical Latin curvātus curved, bent, crooked, swelling, use as adjective of past participle of curvāre curve v. Compare curved adj.

Somewhat rare.

Curved; of a curved form.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > curvature > [adjective]

crooked?c1225

roundc1300

ybentc1330

bentc1374

cambera1387

curvate?a1425

curve?a1425

curved?a1425

bowingc1440

crumped1480

bowed1483

bended1495

bowlanda1522

compass?1523

curbed?1541

compassed1551

compassing1576

curvated1598

orbed1598

curving1609

ridgill-backed1611

incurved1623

inflected1646

incurvate1647

curvous1661

incurvated1665

swayed1688

bending1697

circumflex1707

curval1730

sweeping1772

bendy1800

curvatureda1810

curvative1846

hooped1852

swept1903

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 129 (MED) Wiþ a subtile cauterie of which þe heued be curuate [L. curvum].

1556 T. Hill tr. B. Cocles Brief Epitomye Phisiognomie xxv. sig. D.i The chynne curuate [L. curuum]..declareth rudenes of wyt.

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia sig. f Some [Minerals] are like warts, as the myrmecias; like the curvat moon, the tephrites.

a1718 J. Bulkeley Last-day (1719) iv. 143 Temper'd Dust Smiles, liv'ning 'neath the Artist's Hand to Shapes Curvate.

1854 Florist & Hort. Jrnl. (Philadelphia) 3 270 Two vesicles of a curvate shape.

1947 Slavonic & E. European Rev. 25 447 Georgian..uses two ancient alphabets..one of them ecclesiastical and angular.., the other civil and curvate.

1990 J. Maraniss tr. A. Benítez-Rojo Sea of Lentils xviii. 105 Pedro de Ponte, lifting his curvate nose from the paper on which he'd scribbled and erased so many names, would look at her deliberately.

2006 Plains Anthropologist 51 540/2 The excavated rectangular strips extended well beyond the limits of the curvate outline of the earthlodge.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	curvate
释义	curvateadj. Brit. /ˈkəːveɪt/, U.S. /ˈkərˌveɪt/ Forms: late Middle English–1500s curuate, 1600s curvat, 1700s– curvate. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin curvātus, curvāre. Etymology: < classical Latin curvātus curved, bent, crooked, swelling, use as adjective of past participle of curvāre curve v. Compare curved adj. Somewhat rare. Curved; of a curved form. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > [adjective] crooked?c1225 roundc1300 ybentc1330 bentc1374 cambera1387 curvate?a1425 curve?a1425 curved?a1425 bowingc1440 crumped1480 bowed1483 bended1495 bowlanda1522 compass?1523 curbed?1541 compassed1551 compassing1576 curvated1598 orbed1598 curving1609 ridgill-backed1611 incurved1623 inflected1646 incurvate1647 curvous1661 incurvated1665 swayed1688 bending1697 circumflex1707 curval1730 sweeping1772 bendy1800 curvatureda1810 curvative1846 hooped1852 swept1903 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 129 (MED) Wiþ a subtile cauterie of which þe heued be curuate [L. curvum]. 1556 T. Hill tr. B. Cocles Brief Epitomye Phisiognomie xxv. sig. D.i The chynne curuate [L. curuum]..declareth rudenes of wyt. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia sig. f Some [Minerals] are like warts, as the myrmecias; like the curvat moon, the tephrites. a1718 J. Bulkeley Last-day (1719) iv. 143 Temper'd Dust Smiles, liv'ning 'neath the Artist's Hand to Shapes Curvate. 1854 Florist & Hort. Jrnl. (Philadelphia) 3 270 Two vesicles of a curvate shape. 1947 Slavonic & E. European Rev. 25 447 Georgian..uses two ancient alphabets..one of them ecclesiastical and angular.., the other civil and curvate. 1990 J. Maraniss tr. A. Benítez-Rojo Sea of Lentils xviii. 105 Pedro de Ponte, lifting his curvate nose from the paper on which he'd scribbled and erased so many names, would look at her deliberately. 2006 Plains Anthropologist 51 540/2 The excavated rectangular strips extended well beyond the limits of the curvate outline of the earthlodge. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?a1425
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