Is reticulate related to reticent?
schwaOne syllable of reticulate is stressed and four are not. Unstressed English vowels all sound roughly alike, so the letters in them are unrecoverable from the sound.
heard asraticulate
spelledreticulate
saidri-TIK-yuu-lut
It is not, and the word is reticulate.
These two look like relatives and are not even distant ones. Reticent is from reticere, to keep silent, built on tacere. Reticulate is from rete, a net. They share three letters and no history, and the a in raticulate is what happens when an unstressed first syllable is written down by ear with no family to anchor it.
The rest of the net
ruticulate retikulate reticculate reticulete reticulute retticulate
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