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cohobate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
co-ho-bate
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To treat a material with a boiling liquid and repeatedly return the distillate.

noun

The concentrated distillate so formed

Etymology

From New Latin cohobātus, past participle of cohobāre, perhaps from Arabic كَعَّبَ (kaʕʕaba).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: cohobātus, كَعَّبَ

Inflected Forms

cohobates (present, singular) cohobating (participle, present) cohobated (participle, past) cohobated (past) cohobates (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

cohobation

Questions

What does cohobate mean?
To treat a material with a boiling liquid and repeatedly return the distillate.
Where does cohobate come from?
It is traced to Arabic.

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