From the participle stem of Latin innovare.

• (British) IPA: /ˈɪnəveɪt/

innovate (innovates, present participle innovating; simple past and past participle innovated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To alter, to change into something new; to revolutionize.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC ↗:
     , New York 2001, p.80:

     But the most frequent maladies are such as proceed from themselves, as first when religion and God's service is neglected, innovated or altered […].

   • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:

     From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceeds to innovate God's worship.

2. (intransitive) To introduce something new to a particular environment; to do something new.
3. (transitive) To introduce (something) as new.

   to innovate a word or an act

• invent

• innovative
• innovation
• innovator
• innovatory

• French: innover
• German: innovieren, erneuern, neuern
• Italian: innovare
• Portuguese: inovar
• Spanish: innovar