dilater
French, verb/di.la.te/
dilater is spelled D-I-L-A-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 57,843rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dilater is a French verb meaning “to dilate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre plus large, plus ample”.
What does dilater mean in English?
verb
- 1
to dilate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre plus large, plus ample. 2. Augmenter le volume d’un corps et lui faire occuper plus d’espace, en écartant ses particules matérielles, sans les désagréger. 3. Élargir. 4. Arnaquer, sur le modèle d’enculer dans ce sens, souvent au passif.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of dilater
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dilatant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dilaté participle past
- dilate first-person indicative present
- dilates indicative present second-person
- dilatons first-person indicative plural
- dilatez indicative plural present
- dilatent indicative plural present
- dilatais first-person imperfect indicative
- dilatait imperfect indicative singular
- dilations first-person imperfect indicative
- dilatiez imperfect indicative plural
- dilataient imperfect indicative plural
- dilatai first-person historic indicative
- dilatas historic indicative past
- dilata historic indicative past
- dilatâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dilater?
- /di.la.te/
- \di.la.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dilater
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dilater in French?
dilater appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).