English

Adjective

ornate ‎(comparative more ornate, superlative most ornate)

1. Elaborately ornamented, often to excess.
   • 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter V”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:

     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.
   • John Milton (1608-1674)

     a graceful and ornate rhetoric

Related terms

• ornament

Translations

Verb

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

1. (obsolete) To adorn; to honour.

   They may ornate and sanctify the name of God. — Latimer.

Anagrams

• atoner, rotane

Italian

Verb

ornate

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

Anagrams

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

Latin

Participle

ōrnāte

1. vocative masculine singular of ōrnātus

References

• 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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ornate”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.