feminate

First attested circa 1533; borrowed from Latin fēminātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

feminate (comparative more feminate, superlative most feminate)

1. (obsolete) Feminine; (also) effeminate, womanish.
   • 1629, John Ford, The Broken Heart, act 5 acene 3:

     a feminate authority

• “feminate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [feː.mɪˈnaː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fe.miˈnaː.te]

fēmināte

1. vocative masculine singular of fēminātus

fēmināte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of fēminō

fēmināte

1. vocative masculine singular of fēminātus