Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

verticillate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ver-ti-cil-late
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Forming or having whorls

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin vertex Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -illus Latin verticillus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Latin verticillātusbor. English verticillate Borrowed from Latin verticillātus.

Inflected Forms

more verticillate (comparative) most verticillate (superlative)

Derived Forms

biverticillate monoverticillate pseudoverticillate semiverticillate subverticillate terverticillate verticillated verticillately verticillation

Synonyms

verticillated whorled

Questions

What does verticillate mean?: Forming or having whorls
Where does verticillate come from?: Etymology tree Latin vertex Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -illus Latin verticillus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Latin verticillātusbor. English verticillate Borrowed from Latin verticillātus.

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