The Collaborative International Dictionary
Connotate
Connotate \Con"no*tate\ (k[o^]n"n[-o]*t[=a]t), v. t. [L. con- +
notatus, p. p.of notare to mark. Cf. Connote.]
To connote; to suggest or designate (something) as
additional; to include; to imply.
--Hammond.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
connotate
1590s, from Medieval Latin connotatus, past participle of connotare (see connote). Obsolete; replaced by connote.
Wiktionary
connotate
vb. To connote; to suggest or designate (something) as additional; to include; to imply.
Usage examples of "connotate".
Freddie had proved to be nothing more than an innkeeper and ladies’ man, the idiom for ladies’ man untranslatable but connotating a greedy infant always at its mother’s nipple--in short, unmanly.