• (British) IPA: /ˈɪnəveɪt/

innovate (innovates, present participle innovating; 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: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗:

     , 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 […].

   • 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

• innovative
• innovation
• innovator
• innovatory

• invent

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