demonstrate

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-
Proto-Indo-European *men-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti
Proto-Italic *moneō
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Indo-European *-strom
Proto-Italic *-strom
Proto-Italic *monestrom
Latin mōnstrum
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
Proto-Italic *-ājō
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin mōnstrō
Latin dēmōnstrō
Latin dēmōnstrātusbor.
English demonstrate

    Borrowed from Latin dēmonstrātus, the perfect passive participle of dēmonstrō (“to show, point at”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French démontrer.

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    demonstrate (third-person singular simple present demonstrates, present participle demonstrating, simple past and past participle demonstrated)

    1. (transitive) To show how to use (something).
      Can you demonstrate the new tools for us?
      • 1987 February 8, Richard Zachs, “Candy is dandy (though maybe not liquor) - so for this Valentine's Day, video may be a whole lot more fun”, in The New York Daily News:
        In this tape, a velvet-voiced narrator provides a stroke-by-stroke guide to massaging your partner. As she speaks, comely nude couples demonstrate.
    2. To show the steps taken to create a logical argument or equation.
    3. (intransitive) To participate in or organize a demonstration.
      Those people outside are demonstrating against the election results.
    4. (transitive) To show, display, or present; to prove or make evident

    Conjugation

    Conjugation of demonstrate
    infinitive (to) demonstrate
    present tense past tense
    1st-person singular demonstrate demonstrated
    2nd-person singular demonstrate, demonstratest† demonstrated, demonstratedst†
    3rd-person singular demonstrates, demonstrateth† demonstrated
    plural demonstrate
    subjunctive demonstrate demonstrated
    imperative demonstrate —
    participles demonstrating demonstrated

    † Archaic or obsolete.

    Derived terms

    Translations

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    See also

    Esperanto

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /demonsˈtrate/
    • Rhymes: -ate

    Noun

    demonstrate

    1. present adverbial passive participle of demonstri

    Ido

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /deˈmonstrate/

    Verb

    demonstrate

    1. adverbial present passive participle of demonstrar

    Latin

    Verb

    dēmōnstrāte

    1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēmōnstrō

    Participle

    dēmōnstrāte

    1. vocative masculine singular of dēmōnstrātus
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