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Coadunate Latin Ko Aj Uh Nit Nayt Adjective United Growth Closely

Coadunate, pronounced ko-AJ-uh-nit or -nayt, is an adjective meaning united by growth or closely joined. It originates from Latin roots signifying 'together' and 'one'.

Coadunate (ko-AJ-uh-nit, -nayt) is an adjective meaning united by growth or closely joined. It comes from Late Latin roots meaning 'together' and 'one', ultimately derived from a root for 'one'.

Front coadunate /ko-AJ-uh-nit, -nayt/
Back adjective
United by growth; closely joined.

[From Late Latin coadunatus, past participle of coadunare, to combine, a compound word from Latin co- (together) + ad- (toward) + unus (one).

Coadunate ultimately derives from Indo-European *oi-no, meaning one, unique. Less obvious words derived from this root include anon, atone, lonely, eleven, ounce and inch. The lowly onion may also be in this family, conceived as a unity formed of many layers.]

"I descend from my high home in the Financial District to plunge into the coadunate streams of pedestrians ..."

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