ideate

== English == === Etymology 1 === From idea +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix). ==== Pronunciation ==== (General American) IPA(key): /ˈaɪdieɪt/ ==== Verb ==== ideate (third-person singular simple present ideates, present participle ideating, simple past and past participle ideated) To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize. To generate an idea. Coordinate terms: brainstorm, innovate; brainchild (rare) ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From idea +‎ -ate (adjective-forming suffix). ==== Adjective ==== ideate (not comparable) Produced by an idea. === Etymology 3 === From Late Latin ideatum. See idea. ==== Alternative forms ==== ideat ==== Noun ==== ideate (plural ideates) (metaphysics) The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence. ==== Further reading ==== “ideate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “ideate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. == Italian == === Verb === ideate inflection of ideare: second-person plural present indicative second-person plural imperative == Spanish == === Verb === ideate second-person singular voseo imperative of idear combined with te