conjugate

Meanings

Verb

  • To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses.
  • To multiply on the left by one element and on the right by its inverse.
  • To join together, to unite; to juxtapose.
  • To temporarily fuse, exchanging or transferring DNA.

Noun

Adjective

  • United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
  • In single pairs; coupled.
  • Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.
  • Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; said of words.
  • Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; said of quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc.

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Broader meaning words

Origin

  • From the participle stem of Latin coniugāre ("to yoke together"), from con- + iugō.

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