nictitates
Meaning of nictitates
verb, 3rd person present
- 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
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