nictitates

Meaning of nictitates

verb, 3rd person present
  1. blink.
    the lid of her left eye began to nictate

late 17th century: from Latin nictat- ‘blinked’, from the verb nictare ‘to blink’. The variant nictitate is from the medieval Latin frequentative of nictare .

Information about nictitates

  • It is a verb.
  • The singular form of nictitates is: nictitate.
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Hyphenation of nictitates

nic-ti-tates

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • nictitates is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Anagrams of nictitates

enstatitic

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