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Castellate

//ˈkastələt// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    castle-like: built or shaped like a castle. rare

    "...The living porphyry, in towers around Grotesquely castellate..."

  2. 2
    Castled: having or furnished with castles. rare

    "...Heights castellate..."

  3. 3
    Housed or kept in a castle. rare
Noun
  1. 1
    The district of a castle. historical, obsolete, rare

    "In the Castellate of Roger of Poictou..."

Verb
  1. 1
    To make into a castle: to build in the form of a castle or to add battlements to an existing building. transitive

    "The citizen who castellates a Villa at Richmond..."

  2. 2
    To take the form of a castle. intransitive, rare

    "...Clouds slowly castellating in a calm..."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin castellātus (“fortified”), from castellum (“little fortification, castle”) + -ātus, -āta, -ātum (participial adjective-forming suffix). Equivalent to Latin castellum + -ate (adjective-forming suffix)

Etymology 2

From Medieval Latin castellō (“fortify”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Etymology 3

From Latin castellum + -ate (forms noun denoting a rank or office, here the concrete charge of this office).

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