egerminate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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verb

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"There are, in this translation, a great many learned and foreign words from the Latin and other languages, which […] do not egerminate from the vernacular tongue."
"[…] ἐκφύῃ, in subjunct. present,—others read ἐκφυῇ, which is the subjunct. of ἐξεφύην, a later form of the aor. 2 for ἐξέφυν (intrans. as also the perf.), to egerminate, shoot out, put forth, i. e. the leaves put forth."
"It was a small building[…]; its worn-out walls were covered with the multifoliate ivy, which extended its egerminating branches from the south end of the church[…]"

From Latin ēgermināt-, perfect passive participial stem of Latin ēgerminō (“to sprout”). See Latin ē- (“out, away”), Latin germinō (“to sprout”), English germinate.

egerminates (present, singular) egerminating (participle, present) egerminated (participle, past) egerminated (past)