"fimbriate" meaning in English

See fimbriate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈfɪm.bɹi.eɪt/, /ˈfɪm.bɹiət/, /ˈfɪm.bɹi.ɪt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-fimbriate2.wav
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fimbriātus (“fibrous, fringed”), participial adjective formed on fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”) + -ātus (participial adjective-forming suffix). See -ate (verb-forming suffix), -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|fimbriātus||fibrous, fringed}} Latin fimbriātus (“fibrous, fringed”), {{af|la|fimbriae|-ātus|nocat=1|pos2=participial adjective-forming suffix|t1=fibers, threads, fringe}} fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”) + -ātus (participial adjective-forming suffix) Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} fimbriate (not comparable)
  1. (biology) Fringed, e.g. where the ends of a petal are split into two or more divisions. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Biology Synonyms: fimbriated Derived forms: afimbriate, nonfimbriate
    Sense id: en-fimbriate-en-adj-1T7~V4O3 Topics: biology, natural-sciences

Verb

IPA: /ˈfɪm.bɹi.eɪt/, /ˈfɪm.bɹiət/, /ˈfɪm.bɹi.ɪt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-fimbriate2.wav Forms: fimbriates [present, singular, third-person], fimbriating [participle, present], fimbriated [participle, past], fimbriated [past]
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fimbriātus (“fibrous, fringed”), participial adjective formed on fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”) + -ātus (participial adjective-forming suffix). See -ate (verb-forming suffix), -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|fimbriātus||fibrous, fringed}} Latin fimbriātus (“fibrous, fringed”), {{af|la|fimbriae|-ātus|nocat=1|pos2=participial adjective-forming suffix|t1=fibers, threads, fringe}} fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”) + -ātus (participial adjective-forming suffix) Head templates: {{en-verb}} fimbriate (third-person singular simple present fimbriates, present participle fimbriating, simple past and past participle fimbriated)
  1. (transitive) To fringe; to hem. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-fimbriate-en-verb-9~Psh~1c
  2. (transitive, heraldry) To apply a thin border (a fimbriation) to some element, often to satisfy the rule of tincture. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Heraldry
    Sense id: en-fimbriate-en-verb-PXljucrq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English heteronyms, English terms suffixed with -ate (adjective), English terms suffixed with -ate (verb), Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 5 68 Disambiguation of English heteronyms: 25 10 65 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ate (adjective): 32 12 56 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ate (verb): 32 12 56 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 24 9 66 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 23 6 71 Topics: government, heraldry, hobbies, lifestyle, monarchy, nobility, politics
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: fimbriated [adjective], fimbriation

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (aeaf2a1 and fb63907). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.