Leaf Spelling Dictionary

The ending is -ate

schwaOnly the SIN of laciniate is stressed. Everything on either side of it is reduced, and reduced vowels get written however they land.

heard aslaciniute
spelledlaciniate
saidluh-SIN-ee-ut

laciniate, like crenate and pinnate.

Descriptive adjectives of this kind almost all end in the Latin -atus, and English lands that as -ate whether or not you can hear it. Here you cannot: by the fourth syllable the vowel has faded to nothing.

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