gyrate

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• Received-Pronunciation: /dʒaɪˈɹeɪt/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdʒaɪɹeɪt/
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• General-American: /ˈd͡ʒaɪˌɹeɪt/
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• General-American: /d͡ʒaɪˈɹeɪt/
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• rhymes with -eɪt (one pronunciation)
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• CMU ARPABET: JH AY1 R EY2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree English gyrus Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh2tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English gyrate From gyrus (“fold, convolution”) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Back-formation from gyration, on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), from gyre (“to spin around; to gyrate, to whirl; (rare) to make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl”) + -ation (suffix indicating actions or processes), further from Late Middle English giren (“to turn (something) away; to cause (something) to revolve or rotate; to travel in a circle”), from Old French girer (“to turn”), from Latin gȳrō (“to turn in a circle, rotate; to circle or revolve around”), from gȳrus (“circle; circular motion; circuit, course”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “a circle, a ring”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend; to curve”). By surface analysis, gyre + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

8 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: спираловиден (spiraloviden) — having coils or convolutions
• Bulgarian: завит (zavit) — having coils or convolutions
• Bulgarian: въртя се (vǎrtja se) — to revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado — see also revolve
• Dutch: draaien — to revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado — see also revolve
• Dutch: ronddraaien — to revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado — see also revolve
• Galician: xirar — to revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado — see also revolve
• Russian: вращаться (vraščatʹsja) — to revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado — see also revolve
• Ottoman Turkish: دونمك (dönmek) — to revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado — see also revolve