arcuate

arcuate

English

Etymology

Latin arcuatus.

Adjective

arcuate (comparative more arcuate, superlative most arcuate)

1. curved into the shape of a bow

   arcuate stalks

   • Francis Bacon

     The cause of the confusion in sounds, and the inconfusion in species visible, is, for that the sight worketh in right lines, and so there can be no coincidence in the eye; but sounds that move in oblique and arcuate lines, must needs encounter and disturb the one the other.

Derived terms

• arcuate fasciculus

Translations

curved into the shape of a bow

Bulgarian: дъговиден (dǎgoviden), аркообразен (arkoobrazen)

Portuguese: arcado, arcuado

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Italian

Verb

arcuate

1. second-person plural present indicative of arcuare
2. second-person plural imperative of arcuare
3. feminine plural of arcuato

Anagrams

• rutacea

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Latin

Verb

arcuāte

1. first-person plural present active imperative of arcuō