"-ate" meaning in French

See -ate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Suffix

IPA: /at/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR--ate.wav [France, Vosges], LL-Q150 (fra)-Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick--ate.wav [France] (note: Somain) Forms: -ates [plural]
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin -ātus (perfect passive participle suffix). These chemistry nouns originated as substantivized perfect passive participles from first conjugation Latin verbs; e.g. the Latin adjective acētātus in the 18th-century Latin phrase plumbum acētātum (“lead acetate”, literally “acetated lead”). Doublet of -é (adjective) and -at (adjective). Etymology templates: {{ety|fr|:lbor|la:-ātus<id:adjective>}} [Appendix:Glossary#learned_borrowing|Learned borrowing]] from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "adjective", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "forming adjectives", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "adjectival", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "collective nouns", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "collective nouns", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-h₂", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-éh₂", "lang" : "ine-pro" }, { "id" : "verbal adjectives", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-tós", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-eh₂tos", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "inline", "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*-ātos", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "-ātus", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword" : "lbor" } ], "lang_name" : "French", "term" : "-ate", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "fr" }" data-lang="fr" data-title="-ate">, {{lbor|fr|la|-ātus<id:adjective>|pos=perfect passive participle suffix}} Learned borrowing from Latin -ātus (perfect passive participle suffix), {{doublet|fr|-é<id:adjective><pos:adjective>|-at<id:adjective><pos:adjective>}} Doublet of -é (adjective) and -at (adjective) Head templates: {{fr-noun|m}} -ate m (noun-forming suffix, plural -ates)
  1. (chemistry, in nouns) -ate Tags: masculine, morpheme

Inflected forms

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Download raw JSONL data for -ate meaning in French (4.5kB)

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