nictates
Meaning of nictates
- 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 nictates
- It is a verb.
- The singular form of nictates is: nictate.
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Hyphenation of nictates
nic-tates
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- nictates is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Anagrams of nictates
cantiest, Citanest, entastic, tetanics
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