declinate
Bent downward or aside.
Adjective
- Bent downward or aside.
- Bending downward in a curve; declined.
Origin
The adjective is first attested in 1820; borrowed from Latin dēclīnātus, perfect passive participle of dēclīnō (“to bend down”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Forms
Verb
- Synonym of decline.
- […] as if we were all to become village school teachers and spend our lives in declinating nouns and conjugating verbs. - 1877, Samuel Royce, Deterioration and Race Education, page 313:
- […] we observe that in the use of this auxiliary two declinated forms were conserved: […] - 2000, Charles J. Borges, Oscar Guilherme Pereira, Hannes Stubbe, Goa and Portugal: History and Development, page 361:
Synonyms: decline