agglutinate
/əˈɡluːtɪnət/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.19 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
United with glue or as with glue; cemented together.
adj
Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning.
verb
To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.
Transitive verb
verb
To form through agglutination.
Example Sentences
- "an agglutinate language"
- "an agglutinate family of languages"
- "This is a medicine, and hath a mud of that nature, that it both agglutinateth and hardneth that whereupon it is applied."
- "This is farther evident in the making glue of the dry skins of beasts and of fishes; and paste of starch; whose agglutinating quality is owing solely to the proportions of water absorbed, or intermixed by infusion, maceration, or decoction."
- "The mud of the streets of London is then merely the dust or detritus of the granite of which they are composed, agglutinated either with rain or the water from the watering-carts."
- "[…] sea water in which unfertilized eggs have been left for some time […] agglutinates the spermatozoa by their heads, increases their motility, and keeps them active for a longer time."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *gleyH- Proto-Indo-European *glóh₁ytn̥ Proto-Italic *gloiten Latin glūten Latin glūtinō Latin agglūtinō Latin agglūtinātuslbor. English agglutinate From Latin agglūtinātus, past participle of agglūtināre, adglūtināre (“to glue or cement to a thing”), from ad (“to”) + glūtināre (“to glue”), from glūten (“paste, glue”).