# ornate
## English
### Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin ōrnātus, perfect passive participle of ōrnō (“to equip, adorn”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of orné.

#### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /ɔɹˈneɪt/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪt

#### Adjective

ornate (comparative more ornate, superlative most ornate)
* Elaborately ornamented, often to excess.
** 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth ; […]. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”
* Flashy, flowery or showy.
* Finely finished, as a style of composition.
** [1644], [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London: […] Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson], →OCLC:a graceful and ornate rhetoric

##### Derived terms

* ornate aphid
* ornate hawk-eagle
* ornate horned toad
* ornate rainbowfish
* ornate shrew
* ornate tinamou

##### Related terms

* ornament

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Latin ōrnātus, perfect passive participle of ōrnō (“to equip, adorn”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French orner.

#### Verb

ornate (third-person singular simple present ornates, present participle ornating, simple past and past participle ornated)
* (obsolete) To adorn or honour (someone or something).
** 1552, Hughe Latymer [i.e., Hugh Latimer], Augustine Bernher, compiler, “The Second Sermon”, in Certayn Godly Sermons, Made uppon the Lords Prayer, […], London: […] John Day, […], published 1562, →OCLC, folio 13, verso:And truely thoſe that lyue in the feare of god, (conſydering that they ſerue not only their carnal maiſters, but God hymſelfe,) they be in a good caſe: but they may not bee eye ſeruauntes. […] Saincte Paule woulde haue them to lyue ſo, that they maye ornate and ſanctifye the name of God.

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* antero-, atoner, roneat, rotane, tenora

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

ornate
* inflection of ornare:
** second-person plural present indicative
** second-person plural imperative

### Etymology 2
#### Participle

ornate f pl
* feminine plural of ornato

### Anagrams

* Antero, Aterno, Renato, notare, noterà, onrate, orante, renato, tonare, tonerà

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /oːrˈnaː.teː/, [oːrˈnäːt̪eː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /orˈna.te/, [orˈnäːt̪e]

### Adverb

ōrnātē (comparative ōrnātius, superlative ōrnātissimē)
* ornately, elegantly
* ornamentally

### Participle

ōrnāte
* vocative masculine singular of ōrnātus

### References

* “ornate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ornate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* ornate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Spanish
### Verb

ornate
* second-person singular voseo imperative of ornar combined with te