auscultate

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English

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Etymology

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Back-formation from auscultation.

Verb

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auscultate (third-person singular simple present auscultates, present participle auscultating, simple past and past participle auscultated)

  1. To listen (for example to the heart or lungs) by auscultation; to examine by auscultation.
    • 1969, Hortense Calisher, chapter 3, in The New Yorkers,[1], Boston: Little, Brown, page 123:
      The doctor, listening past him, had had the same bovine stare as when he was auscultating.

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Italian

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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auscultate

  1. inflection of auscultare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

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Participle

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auscultate f pl

  1. feminine plural of auscultato

Latin

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Verb

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auscultāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of auscultō

Spanish

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Verb

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auscultate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of auscultar combined with te