perforate

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• /ˈpəːfəreɪt/
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The adjective is first attested in 1425, in Middle English, the verb in 1538; from Middle English perforat(e) (“perforated, pierced”), borrowed from Latin perforātus, the perfect passive participle of perforō (“to bore or pierce through, to perforate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from per- (“through, thorough”) + forō (“to bore, pierce”). Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.

35 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Basque: zulatu — to pierce or penetrate
• Bulgarian: пробивам (probivam) — to pierce or penetrate
• Bulgarian: продупчвам (produpčvam) — to pierce or penetrate
• Catalan: perforar — to pierce or penetrate
• Chinese Mandarin: 貫穿 /贯穿 (guànchuān) — to pierce or penetrate
• Danish: perforere — to pierce or penetrate
• Finnish: rei’ittää — to pierce or penetrate
• Finnish: lävistää — to pierce or penetrate
• Finnish: puhkaista — to pierce or penetrate
• Galician: perforar — to pierce or penetrate
• German: perforieren — to pierce or penetrate
• German: durchstechen — to pierce or penetrate
• Greek: διατρυπώ (diatrypó) — to pierce or penetrate
• Greek: τρυπώ (trypó) — to pierce or penetrate
• Ancient Greek: τετραίνω (tetraínō) — to pierce or penetrate
• Hebrew: חוֹרֵר (khorér) — to pierce or penetrate
• Irish: toll — to pierce or penetrate
• Latin: terebrō — to pierce or penetrate
• Māori: pokapoka — to pierce or penetrate
• Māori: mōhukihuki — to pierce or penetrate
• Māori: whao — to pierce or penetrate
• Māori: tioka — to pierce or penetrate
• Portuguese: perfurar — to pierce or penetrate
• Russian: просве́рливать (prosvérlivatʹ) — to pierce or penetrate
• Russian: проника́ть (pronikátʹ) — to pierce or penetrate
• Santali: ᱨᱳᱜ (rok’) — to pierce or penetrate
• Spanish: perforar — to pierce or penetrate
• Swedish: perforera — to pierce or penetrate
• Bulgarian: перфорирам (perforiram) — to make a line of holes
• Finnish: rei’ittää — to make a line of holes
• Māori: tīokaoka — to make a line of holes
• Māori: kōwhaowhao — to make a line of holes
• Portuguese: perfurar — to make a line of holes
• Russian: перфори́ровать (perforírovatʹ) — to make a line of holes
• Swedish: perforera — to make a line of holes