Commentate

Definition: Commentate

Commentate

Verb

1. Make a commentary on.

2. Serve as a commentator, as in sportscasting.

Etymology: Commentate \Com"men*tate\, transitive and intransitive verb. [Latin expression commentatus, past participle of commentari to meditate.]. (Websters 1913)

"Commentate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Commentate" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	100%	7	133,076

Expression using "commentate": commentate on. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "commentate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏علق (annotate, comment, dangle, gloss, hang, hang up, hinge, pin out, rest, shelve, sling, stop, string up, suspend, swing), ‏عقب (heel, posterity). (various references)

Czech		komentovat (comment, gloss). (various references)

Danish		kommentere (annotate, expound, mark up), annotere (annotate, expound). (various references)

Dutch		uitleggen (account for, clarify, explain, interpret, lengthen). (various references)

French		commenter (comment). (various references)

German		reporterin sein, reporter sein, erklären (account for, affirm, announce, authenticate, avow, clarify, declare, explain, expound, proclaim, profess, pronounce, state, to account for, to explain, to expound, to meld, to state), auslegen (carpet, cover, design, display, explain, inlay, interpret, lend, line, pay out, spend, to lay out). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"עיר �"ערות (comment, mention, notice, observe, remark). (various references)

Hungarian		közvetít (broadcast, convey, go between, mediate, relay, televise, to convey, to cover, to interpose, to transmit). (various references)

Italian		commentare (amplify, comment, comment on, elucidate, exemplify, explain, expound, observe). (various references)

Pig Latin		ommentatecay

Portuguese		comentar (annotate, comment, gloss, observe, prophesy, remark). (various references)

Spanish		comentar (annotate, annotation, comment, discuss, gloss, help along, lecture, remark). (various references)

Swedish		vara kommentator, referera (cover, report), kommentera (annotate, comment, gloss, remark). (various references)

Turkish		yorumlamak (comment, construe, decipher, explicate, expound, gloss, interpret, paraphrase, read, render), değerlendirmek (appraise, appreciate, comment, evaluate, form an estimate of, interpret, judge, parlay, peruse, reclaim, recover, recycle, salvage, score, seize on, seize upon, size up). (various references)

Ukrainian		бути коментатором. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "commentate": commentated, commentates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Commentate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cementite, commandite, commencate, commendate, comminate, communaute. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "commentate" (pronounced 'Com"men*tate'): Abirritate, Ablactate, Acetate, Agitate, Amputate, Anastate, Angulo-dentate, Angustate, Aptate, Archontate, Argentate, Arietate, Aristate, Astate, Auscultate, Bicostate, Bidentate, Bidigitate, Bipeltate, Bipunctate, Biscutate, Biseptate, Capacitate, Capitate, Carbazotate, Circumagitate, Circumnutate, Circumrotate, Coestate, Connotate, Constate, Contristate, Cooptate, Counterirritate, Crebricostate, Crepitate, Cristate, Cruentate, Curtate, Curvicostate, Curvidentate, Debilitate, Decantate, Decapitate, Decemdentate, Dehonestate, Deitate, Delectate, Fertilitate, Flagitate. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-m-m-n-o-t-t"
	-2 letters: ammocete.
	-3 letters: acetone, cementa, comment, meatmen, memento, momenta, tomenta.
	-4 letters: cement, cenote, cetane, coatee, comate, cottae, menace, metate, moment, notate, octane, octant, omenta, tenace, tomcat, toneme.
	-5 letters: ament, atone, cameo, canoe, canto, cento, comae, comet, comma, comte, conte, cotan, cotta, eaten, emmet, emote, enact, enate, enema, macon, matte, meant, menta, monte, motet, motte, oaten.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-m-m-n-o-t-t"
	+1 letter: commentated, commentates.
	+2 letters: committeeman.
	+3 letters: compartmented, magnetometric.
	+4 letters: committeewoman, thermomagnetic.
	+5 letters: complementarity, complementation.
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Commentate

Definition: Commentate

Commentate

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Usage Frequency: Commentate

Expression: Commentate

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Modern Translation: Commentate

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INDEX

Expression	Frequency per Day
commentate	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.