marinate

First attested in 1645; adapted from either French mariner or the earlier attested Italian marinare (“to pickle, marinate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from Late Latin marina (“brine, salt water”), short for aqua marina (“sea water”), from Latin marinus (“marine, of the sea”), from Latin mare (“the sea”) from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“the sea”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæɹɪneɪt/

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marinate (third-person singular simple present marinates, present participle marinating, simple past and past participle marinated)

1. (transitive, ergative) To allow a sauce or flavoring mixture to absorb into something; to steep or soak something in a marinade to flavor or prepare it for cooking.

   You'll get a better flavour from the chicken if you marinate it first.

   After the chicken has marinated for two hours, discard the remaining marinade.

2. (intransitive) Of ideas or feelings, to mentally develop over time.
3. (figurative, informal) Especially of a haircut, to settle in and for one to get used to it.

   It's not a bad haircut! You just got to let it marinate!

• marinate on

marinate (not comparable)

1. (rare) Marinated.

• animater, natremia

marinate

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

marinate f pl

1. feminine plural of marinato

• amarenti, antimera, atermani, marniate, materani, riamante, rimenata, teramani

marinate

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