oscitate

First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin ōscitātus, perfect passive participle of ōscitō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ōs (“the mouth”) + citō (“to cause to move”).

oscitate (third-person singular simple present oscitates, present participle oscitating, simple past and past participle oscitated)

1. (archaic) To gape or yawn.

• oscitation

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

• ascot tie

oscitāte

1. vocative masculine singular of oscitātus