lineate

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”).

lineate (third-person singular simple present lineates, present participle lineating, simple past and past participle lineated) (obsolete)

1. To mark with lines.
2. To delineate, represent.

First attested in 1643; borrowed from Latin delineātus, participial adjective, see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.

lineate (comparative more lineate, superlative most lineate)

1. (especially zoology) Marked with lines.
2. (botany) Marked longitudinally with depressed parallel lines.

   a lineate leaf

• lineated

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

• ateline, lenaite, leniate, nealite

lineate

1. inflection of lineare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

lineate f pl

1. feminine plural of lineato

• leniate

līneāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of līneō

lineate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of linear combined with te