innovate

English

Etymology

From the participle stem of Latin innovare (renew).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɪnəveɪt/
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Verb

innovate (third-person singular simple present innovates, present participle innovating, simple past and past participle innovated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To alter, to change into something new; to revolutionize.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: [], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      , New York 2001, p.80:
      But the most frequent maladies are such as proceed from themselves, as first when religion and God's service is neglected, innovated or altered [].
    • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: [] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, [], published 1727, →OCLC:
      From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceeds to innovate God's worship.
  2. (intransitive) To introduce something new to a particular environment; to do something new.
    • 2013 February 6, Hideo Otake, “Revising the Interpretation of the Japanese Economy”, in Michio Muramatsu, Frieder Naschold, editors, State and Administration in Japan and Germany: A Comparative Perspective on Continuity and Change, page 319:
      Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition.
  3. (transitive) To introduce (something) as new.
    to innovate a word or an act

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Italian

Verb

innovate

  1. inflection of innovare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Participle

innovate f pl

  1. feminine plural of innovato

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Latin

Verb

innovāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of innovō

Spanish

Verb

innovate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of innovar combined with te
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