intercalate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: The verb is first attested in 1614, the noun in 1964; borrowed from Latin intercalātus, perfect passive participle of intercalō (“to proclaim that a day, an event, etc. has been intercalated; to insert”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from inter- (“between, among”) + calō (“to call; to proclaim”).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: intercalates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: intercalating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: intercalated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: intercalated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To insert an extra leap day into a calendar in order to maintain synchrony with natural phenomena.
pos: verb
examples: '[T]is wonderful where or when we ever got anything of this which we call wisdom, poetry, virtue. We never got it on any dated calendar day. Some heavenly days must have been intercalated somewhere.
At some unknown period, the five days, known to the present time by the names of the five Gathic hymns of Zarathushtra, were intercalated at the end of the twelfth month, to complete the three hundred and sixty-five days of the solar year.
gloss: To insert an extra month into a calendar for the same purpose, such as for the Hebrew calendar.
pos: verb
examples: The Sages once overheard three shepherds discussing what weather is characteristic of Adar, and if that weather does not occur, it is not really Adar. As a result, the Sages intercalated the year and added Adar II.
gloss: To insert a substance between two or more molecules, bases, cells, or tissues.
pos: verb
gloss: To insert anything somewhere (especially between other things), such as an affix into a word. (Compare interpolate.)
pos: verb
examples: ... the personal pronouns which form the terminations of the verb, or by an intercalated suffix, the nature and relation of its objects and its subject , and to distinguish whether the object be animate or inanimate, ...
Sometimes f or s is intercalated to lighten the pronunciation : kommen, Kunft ; können, Kunst ; […]
-erole ← -er- (< -ÅR) + -ole ( < -EOLU): maierole. A lengthened var. of -ole, this suffix appears in the late Middle Ages, formed through “false division”, namely the secondary rapprochement of, say, bannerole (banniere + -ole) or casserole with ban- or cass-. Is the -er- […] intercalated for rhythmic of differentiatory purposes? This "interfix" conveys no semantic message: It simply serves as an occasionally handy grammatical tool.
... they were interpreted and modified in the light of Pythagorean harmonies and other mystical manipulations of vowels and letters. The intercalated letters are intended to be the first ten letters of the alphabet as in line 602ff.
Description: Color translucent white; shell cap shaped; sculpture of approximately 40 radiating ribs with intercalated threads alternating between ribs; concentric ribs intersecting radial ribs; anal fasciole relatively short, […]
Related words: bissextile
bissextile month
bissextile year
leap day
leap year
Derived words: deintercalate
intercalary
intercalation
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: вмъквам
roman: vmǎkvam
lang: French
word: intercaler
lang: Māori
word: kōkuhu rā
lang: Spanish
word: intercalar