glomerate

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin glomerātus, perfect passive participle of to glomerate, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). === Verb === glomerate (third-person singular simple present glomerates, present participle glomerating, simple past and past participle glomerated) To gather or wind into a ball; to collect (threads, etc.) into a spherical form or mass. === Adjective === glomerate (not comparable) Gathered together in a roundish mass or dense cluster; conglomerate. ==== Related terms ==== conglomerate === Anagrams === algometer, geometral == Latin == === Participle === glomerāte vocative masculine singular of glomerātus === References === “glomerate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “glomerate”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.