innovate

From the participle stem of Latin innovare (“renew”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnəveɪt/

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.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970:

     , 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 […].

   • South

     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.
3. (transitive) To introduce (something) as new.

   to innovate a word or an act

• innovative
• innovation
• innovator
• innovatory

• invent

• venation

innovate

1. second-person plural present indicative of innovare
2. second-person plural imperative of innovare
3. feminine plural of innovato

• innevato

innovāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of innovō