formicate
ant-like
Adjective
- ant-like
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *morwísder. Proto-Italic *mormīkā Latin formīca Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English formicate From Latin formīca (“ant”) + English -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Forms
Verb
- To move like ants.
- an open space which formicated with peasantry - 1853–1864, James Russell Lowell, “(please specify the page)”, in Fireside Travels, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1864, →OCLC:
- To have a sensation like the movement of ants.
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *morwísder. Proto-Italic *mormīkā Latin formīca Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English formicate From Latin formīca (“ant”) + English -ate (verb-forming suffix).