malleate

malleate

See also: maleate

English

WOTD – 23 August 2012

Etymology

From Latin malleātus, perfect passive participle of *malleō (“beat with a hammer”), related to malleus (“a hammer, mallet”).

Pronunciation

• (adjective): (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈmæl.i.ɪt/, /ˈmæl.i.eɪt/
• (verb): (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈmæl.i.eɪt/

Adjective

malleate (comparative more malleate, superlative most malleate)

1. (zoology) Possessing or resembling a malleus, or another structure shaped like a hammer.
   • 2009, James H. Thorp & Alan P. Covich (eds.), Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, 3rd ed., page 181

     Malleate trophi are present in such common rotifers as Brachionus, Keratella, and Lecane.

2. (malacology, of a shell) Having a surface with shallow round indentations, resembling copper that has been hammered.
   • 1919, Henry Augustus Pilsbry, "A Review of the Land Mollusks of the Belgian Congo", Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 40: 313

     The spire has stronger rib-striæ than C. bequaerti; last whorl finely and closely malleate, with several weak spiral threads.

Translations

(zoology) possessing or resembling a malleus

Latin: malleātus

Malay: maleat

(malacology) having a surface with shallow round indentations

Latin: malleātus

Verb

malleate (third-person singular simple present malleates, present participle malleating, simple past and past participle malleated)

1. (rare) To beat into shape with a hammer.
   • 1878, James Milleson, The Embryonic System of Nature, page 12

     Man is a mechanic, and works beautiful forms out of natural organisms. He cuts, bores, malleates, melts, casts in matrices, and spins, various articles.

Translations

to beat into shape with a hammer

Armenian: կռել (hy) (kṙel) Dutch: uithameren, behameren, hameren (nl), smeden (nl) Finnish: vasaroida (fi), takoa (fi) German: hämmern (de), schmieden (de)

Latin: malleō Russian: кова́ть (ru) (kovátʹ), сплю́щивать (ru) (spljúščivatʹ) Spanish: martillar (es), forjar (es)

See also

• forge
• hammer

Related terms

• malleability
• malleable
• malleableness
• malleably
• mallet

Further reading

• malleate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• malleate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• malleate at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Latin

Verb

malleāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of malleō