oblate

Meanings

Noun

• A person dedicated to a life of religion or monasticism, especially a member of an order without religious vows or a lay member of a religious community.
• A child given up by its parents into the keeping or dedication of a religious order or house.

Adjective

• Flattened or depressed at the poles.

Verb

• To offer as either a gift or an oblation.

Related

Opposite words

• prolate

Origin

• From French oblat and its source, post-classical Latin oblātus ("person dedicated to religious life"), a nominal use of the past participle of offerō.
• From Late Latin oblātus, from Latin ob + lātus, (modeled after prōlātus).