innovate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To create or introduce new ideas, methods, or products.

   Companies must keep innovating to stay ahead of rivals.

Simplified etymology

Innovate, recorded from the mid-16th century, comes from Latin novus, meaning “new.” Novus is also the source of novel, novice, and renovate, while English new comes from the same root.

First attested in 1548; borrowed from Latin innovātus, perfect passive participle of innovō (“to renew”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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