ornate

From Latin ornatus, past participle of ornare (“to equip, adorn”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɔɹˈneɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt

ornate (comparative more ornate, superlative most ornate)

1. Elaborately ornamented, often to excess.
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth ; […]. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”

2. Flashy, flowery or showy
3. Finely finished, as a style of composition.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     a graceful and ornate rhetoric

• ornament

ornate (third-person singular simple present ornates, present participle ornating, simple past and past participle ornated)

1. (obsolete) To adorn; to honour.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Latimer

     They may ornate and sanctify the name of God.

• ornate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ornate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• antero-, atoner, roneat, rotane, tenora

ornate

1. second-person plural present indicative of ornare
2. second-person plural imperative of ornare
3. feminine plural of ornato

• Antero, notare, noterà, Renato, tonare, tonerà

ōrnāte

1. vocative masculine singular of ōrnātus

• ornate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ornate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ornate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette