binate
adjective, verb
Forms binates binating binated
- adjective (botany) Double; growing in pairs or couples.
- verb (Catholicism, intransitive) To perform bination; to hold Mass twice on the same day.
Etymology
From Latin binus (“two each, in pairs”) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix)
From Latin bīnātus, past participle of bīnō (“to binate”), from bīnus (“two each, in pairs”). Equivalent to Latin bīnō + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Webster’s 1913
Etymology [L. bini two and two.]
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “binate”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details