lineate

== English == === Etymology 1 === First attested in 1558; borrowed from Medieval Latin līneātus, perfect passive participle of līneō (“to draw a line; (classically) to reduce to a straight line, make straight”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from līnea (“a line”). ==== Verb ==== lineate (third-person singular simple present lineates, present participle lineating, simple past and past participle lineated) (obsolete) To mark with lines. To delineate, represent. === Etymology 2 === First attested in 1643; borrowed from Latin delineātus, participial adjective, see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more. ==== Adjective ==== lineate (comparative more lineate, superlative most lineate) (especially zoology) Marked with lines. (botany) Marked longitudinally with depressed parallel lines. ===== Alternative forms ===== lineated === References === “lineate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === Anagrams === ateline, lenaite, leniate, nealite == Italian == === Etymology 1 === ==== Verb ==== lineate inflection of lineare: second-person plural present indicative second-person plural imperative === Etymology 2 === ==== Participle ==== lineate f pl feminine plural of lineato === Anagrams === leniate == Latin == === Verb === līneāte second-person plural present active imperative of līneō == Spanish == === Verb === lineate second-person singular voseo imperative of linear combined with te