oblongatus

Perfect passive participle of oblongō, oblongāre (“to make oblong”) (New Latin, rarely used in other forms), from oblongus (“rather long, oblong”).

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ob.lonˈɡa.tus/, [obloŋˈɡäːt̪us]

oblongātus (feminine oblongāta, neuter oblongātum); first/second-declension participle (New Latin)

1. oblong (mostly used in medulla oblongāta)
   • c. 1484-1496, Paul Walther von Guglingen, Itinerarium, Neuburg MS p. 211:
     Nota tamen quod terra sancta sit in spera orbiculari, sed quantum ad regiones describuntur inicia et termini terre sancte isto modo. Sed tamen in se est oblongata.

     Note, however, that the Holy Land is in a round circle (spera orbiculari), but concerning the regions, the beginnings, and the borders of the Holy Land are described in this way. But in itself it is oblong.― The Holy Land in Observant Franciscan Texts (c. 1480–1650):Theology, Travel, and Territoriality, by Marianne P. Ritsema van Eck, 2019, page 49

   • 1664, Bernhardus Swalve, Querelae et Opprobria Ventriculi..., page 16:
     Corporum quidem varietas eam variat: rotunda quoque et sphaerica, sed oblongata paululum ad dexteram Figura mea respondet: substantia sane corrugabilis, et extensibilis amplexandis contentis accomoda est.

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   • 1850, Alexander Messerschmidt, Observationes de operationibus chiloplasticis, praesertim in labiis cancrosis, page 32:
     Mutui panni, recuperati ex inferiore buccarum cute, forma quadrata sed oblongata, e mandibula subsecando soluti, ad lineam medianam deinde protracti quatuor suturis circumvolutis inter se connectebantur.

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First/second-declension adjective.