# coagulate
## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English coagulaten (“(of blood) to clot or, make blood coagulate; (of tissue) to consolidate”), from coagulat(e) (“coagulated; (blood) clotted; (milk) curdled; (humor) thickened, viscous; (material) solidified, cohesive; (wine) boiled down, reduced”, also used as the past participle of coagulaten) +‎ -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin coāgulātus, the perfect passive participle of coāgulō (“to curdle, coagulate”), from coāgulum (“a means of curdling, rennet”), from cōgō (“bring together, gather, collect”) + -ulum (forms instrument nouns), from co- (“together”) + agō (“do, make, drive”). Doublet of quail. Displaced native Middle English irennen, from Old English ġerinnan, but not native curdle.

#### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /kəʊˈæɡ.jʊ.leɪt/
* (US) IPA: /koʊˈæɡ.jə.leɪt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)

#### Verb

coagulate (third-person singular simple present coagulates, present participle coagulating, simple past and past participle coagulated)
* (intransitive) To become congealed; to convert from a liquid to a semisolid mass.
    In cheese making, milk coagulates into curds that become cheese.
* (transitive) To cause to congeal.
    Rennet coagulates milk; heat coagulates the white of an egg.

##### Antonyms

* dissolve, melt

##### Derived terms

* anticoagulate
* coagulable
* coagulant
* coagulation
* coagulative
* coagulator
* coagulatory
* coagulin
* coagulopathy
* electrocoagulate
* hemocoagulase
* photocoagulate
* recoagulate
* thermocoagulate
* uncoagulating

##### Related terms

* coagulum
* cache
* cogent
* squat

##### Translations

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### Etymology 2

From Middle English coagulat(e) (“coagulated; (blood) clotted; (milk) curdled; (humor) thickened, viscous; (material) solidified, cohesive; (wine) boiled down, reduced”), also used as the past participle of coagulaten and of coagulate in Early Modern English, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.

#### Adjective

coagulate (not comparable)
* (obsolete) Coagulated.
** 'c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], line 460:roasted in wrath and fire, / And thus o'er-sized with coagulate gore,

### Etymology 3

From New Latin coāgulātum, substantivized from the nominative neuter singular of coāgulātus, see -ate (noun-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.

#### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /kəʊˈæɡ.jʊ.lət/
* (US) IPA: /koʊˈæɡ.jə.lət/
* Audio (US):(file)

#### Noun

coagulate (plural coagulates)
* A mass formed by means of coagulation.

##### Translations
### References

* “coagulate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “coagulate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “coagulate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* catalogue

## Italian
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

coagulate
* inflection of coagulare:
** second-person plural present indicative
** second-person plural imperative

### Etymology 2
#### Participle

coagulate f pl
* feminine plural of coagulato

## Latin
### Verb

coāgulāte
* second-person plural present active imperative of coāgulō

## Spanish
### Verb

coagulate
* second-person singular voseo imperative of coagular combined with te