d 2 e 1 l 1 i 1 n 1 e 1 a 1 t 1 e 1
9 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb show the form or outline of
verb determine the essential quality of
verb trace the shape of
originFirst attested in 1559; borrowed from Latin dēlīneātus, perfect passive participle of dēlīneo (“to sketch out, to delineate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from dē- + līnea (“line”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Regular participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- dateline 9
- detainee 9
- entailed 9
- lineated 9
- aliened 8
- delaine 8
- latened 8
- lenited 8
- alienee 7
- lineate 7
- aedile 7
- aedine 7