inoculate

== English == === Alternative forms === innoculate === Etymology 1 === First attested in c. 1440; inherited from Middle English inoculaten (“to graft”), from Latin inoculātus, perfect passive participle of inoculō (“to ingraft an eye or bud of one plant into (another), implant”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + oculus (“an eye”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). ==== Pronunciation ==== (UK) IPA(key): /ɪˈnɒkjuleɪt/ (General American) IPA(key): /ɪˈnɑːkjuleɪt/ ==== Verb ==== inoculate (third-person singular simple present inoculates, present participle inoculating, simple past and past participle inoculated) (transitive, immunology) To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into something (e.g. the body) or someone, such as to produce immunity to a specific disease. [from c. 1722] Synonyms: immunize, vaccinate, (archaic) vaccine (transitive, by extension) To safeguard or protect something as if by inoculation. (Can we add an example for this sense?) (transitive) To add one substance to another. Synonym: spike (transitive) To graft by inserting buds. [from c. 1420] (figurative, transitive) To introduce into the mind (used especially of harmful ideas or principles). [from a. 1600] Synonyms: imbue, implant ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ===== See also ===== immunize vaccinate === Etymology 2 === Back-formation from inoculation, see -ate (noun-forming suffix). ==== Pronunciation ==== (UK) IPA(key): /ɪˈnɒkjulɪt/ (General American) IPA(key): /ɪˈnɑːkjulɪt/ ==== Noun ==== inoculate (plural inoculates) Synonym of inoculum. === Further reading === “inoculate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “inoculate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === Anagrams === lotucaine == Italian == === Etymology 1 === ==== Verb ==== inoculate inflection of inoculare: second-person plural present indicative second-person plural imperative === Etymology 2 === ==== Participle ==== inoculate f pl feminine plural of inoculato === Anagrams === cautelino == Latin == === Verb === inoculāte second-person plural present active imperative of inoculō == Spanish == === Verb === inoculate second-person singular voseo imperative of inocular combined with te