geminate

American  

[jem-uh-neyt, jem-uh-nit, -neyt] / ˈdʒɛm əˌneɪt, ˈdʒɛm ə nɪt, -ˌneɪt /

verb (used with or without object)

geminated, geminating

1. to make or become doubled or paired.

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adjective

1. Also geminated. combined or arranged in pairs; twin; coupled.

noun

1. Phonetics. a doubled consonant sound.

geminate British  

adjective

1. combined in pairs; doubled

   a geminate leaf

   a geminate consonant

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verb

1. to arrange or be arranged in pairs

   the ``t''s in ``fitted'' are geminated

Other Word Forms

• geminately adverb
• nongeminate adjective

Etymology

Origin of geminate

1590–1600; < Latin geminātus doubled (past participle of gemināre ), equivalent to gemin- double + -ātus -ate ¹

Example Sentences

V. double, redouble, duplicate, reduplicate; geminate; repeat &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

Male spikelets are geminate, one sessile and one pedicelled, 2-flowered or imperfect, and with four glumes, which are subequal.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

Rottboellia.Sessile spikelets geminate in all except the uppermost joints 26.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

He believed that the words marriage, freedom, fortune, which he had put into her mind, would geminate and flower into wishes by which he could profit; he imagined that her coldness was mere dissimulation.

From The Alkahest by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott

The spikelets are small, 1/20 to 1/14 inch, geminate, one short and the other long pedicelled, appressed to the rachis, elliptic, silky with slender crisped hairs, pale green or purplish.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.