oblate

See also: Oblate

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɒbleɪt/ (or IPA^(key): /ɒˈbleɪt/ for adjective)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑbleɪt/
• Rhymes: (UK adjective) -eɪt

Etymology 1

From French oblat and its source, post-classical Latin oblātus (“person dedicated to religious life”), a nominal use of the past participle of offerō (“I offer”).

Noun

oblate (plural oblates or oblati)

1. (Roman Catholicism) A person dedicated to a life of religion or monasticism, especially a member of an order without religious vows or a lay member of a religious community.
2. A child given up by its parents into the keeping or dedication of a religious order or house.
   • 2007, The Venerable Bede started as an oblate at St Paul's, Jarrow, but by the time of his death in 735 was surely the most learned man in Europe. — Tom Shippey, ‘I Lerne Song’, London Review of Books 29:4, p. 19

Related terms

• oblation
• offer
• offering

Etymology 2

From Late Latin oblātus, from Latin ob (“in front of, before”) lātus (“broad, wide”), (modeled after prōlātus (“extended, lengthened”)).

Adjective

oblate (comparative more oblate, superlative most oblate)

1. Flattened or depressed at the poles.

   The Earth is an oblate spheroid.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     Why should I not speak to him or to any human being who walks upright upon this oblate orange?

   • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 39, in Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part Two: America, page 392:

     ’Tis prolate, still,’ with a long dejected Geordie O. ‘Isn’t it…?’ ‘I’m an Astronomer,– trust me, ’tis gone well to oblate.’

Antonyms

• prolate

Related terms

• oblatum

Translations

Flattened or depressed at the poles

• French: aplati (fr)
• Portuguese: oblato (pt)
• Turkish: basık (tr)

See also

• equidimensional

Etymology 3

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Verb

oblate (third-person singular simple present oblates, present participle oblating, simple past and past participle oblated)

1. To offer as either a gift or an oblation.

Anagrams

• boatel, lobate

Italian

Adjective

oblate

1. feminine plural of oblato

Anagrams

• balteo, belato, lobate

Latin

Participle

oblāte

1. vocative masculine singular of oblātus