innovate
/ˈɪn.ə.veɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.13 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "But the most frequent maladies are such as proceed from themselves, as first when religion and God's service is neglected, innovated or altered […]."
- "From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceeds to innovate God's worship."
- "Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition."
- "to innovate a word or an act"
- "The Russian defense industrial base (DIB) continues to innovate military equipment and weapons for Russian forces to use in Ukraine."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *nu Proto-Indo-European *néwos Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Indo-European *néweh₂ti Proto-Italic *nowāō Latin novō Latin innovō Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Latin innovātusbor. English innovate First attested in 1548; borrowed from Latin innovātus, perfect passive participle of innovō (“to renew”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).