-ate

• (adjectives, nouns) IPA^(key): /ət/
• (verbs, adjectives, nouns, chemistry) IPA^(key): /eɪt/

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From the Latin perfect passive participle suffixes of first conjugation verbs -ātus, -āta, and -ātum. In Middle English, it was written -at (then desolat for current desolate). Doublet of -ee and -ed.

-ate

2. forms adjectives with meaning "having the specified thing"

   Synonyms: -ed, -ous

   lobate — “having lobes, lobed”

3. forms adjectives with meaning "characterized by the specified thing"

   Italianate — “characterized by Italian features”

4. forms adjectives with meaning "resembling the specified thing"

   palmate — “resembling the palm”

See Etymology 1. Its use as a verbal suffix started in the 16th century, when the loss of most verbal morphology made verbs formally identical to adjectives. This led to numerous adjectives in -ate, originally borrowed from the past passive participle stem of first conjugation Latin verbs, being used as verbs.^[1] Compare dissect, exhaust, erase and applause (when older applaud).

-ate

2. derives verbs from Latin stems of various lexical categories

   formulate ← fōrmula

   masturbate ← masturbor

From the substantivation of past participles from first conjugation Latin verbs; see Etymology 1. It grew to popularity after its morphological revival in French during the 14th century, where past participle-inherited substantives began to be Latinized (see French avoué and its re-Latinized version, avocat. Compare also English advocate with further re-Latinization). The older -é (avoué, employé) gave English -ee (employee).

-ate

2. (rare) forms nouns meaning "person or thing that is the object or subject of that performed verb"

   Synonym: -ee

   affiliate — “having been affiliated, affiliated”

   graduate — “having graduated, graduated”

From the substantivation of past participles from first conjugation Latin verbs; see Etymology 1. Used so to denote a product having been subjected to the said chemical and thus derived by it (e.g. plumbum acētātum (“acetated lead”) → acetate (“an acetated product; a salt or ester of acetic acid”)).

-ate

2. (chemistry) forms derivatives of specified elements or compounds; especially salts or esters of an acid whose name ends in -ic

   acetate — “a salt or ester of acetic acid”

From the Latin abstract-noun-forming suffix -ātus, -ātūs.

-ate

2. forms nouns denoting a rank or office

   emirate — “the office of an emir”

3. forms nouns denoting the concrete charge, context of an office itself

   emirate — “the realm of an emir”

4. forms nouns denoting a group of officials associated with a rank or office, the same group as a system in itself

   triumvirate — “an official group of three men, triumvirs”

   patriarchate — “a social system in which heads of household (patriarchs) hold the power”

5. forms nouns denoting a state associated with one's rank (social situation)

   celibate — “the state of being a bachelor, celibacy”

   Synonym: -cy

• eta, æt., eat, Tea, AET, aet, tea, a.e.t., ETA, aet., TEA

• IPA^(key): /at/

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-ate m (plural -ates)

1. (chemistry, in nouns) -ate

   ‎benzo- (“benzo-”) + ‎-ate → ‎benzoate (“benzoate”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: -à‧te

Feminine plural of -ato. From Latin -ātās, feminine accusative plural of -ātus.

-ate f pl (non-lemma form of past participle-forming suffix)

1. used with a suffix to form the feminine plural past participle of regular -are verbs

-ate f (proper noun-forming suffix)

1. common suffix of various towns in Lombardy, that usually indicates belonging to a person or a family

From Latin -ātis (second-person plural present active indicative ending). The imperative comes from Latin -ate.

-ate (non-lemma form of verb-forming suffix)

1. used with a stem to form the second-person plural present and imperative of regular -are verbs

• -eta, -età, eta, età

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈaː.te/, [ˈäːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.te/, [ˈäːt̪e]

-āte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of -ō (first conjugation)

-āte

1. vocative masculine singular of -ātus

-ate

1. be or be in an interior space, room, house

• ate (“be (in a certain place)”)

• biind- (“in, into, inside”)
• biinde (“be in something”)
• -ige (“act in relation to a dwelling”)

• The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/word-part/ate-final

Feminine plural of -at; from Latin -ātae, feminine nominative plural of -ātus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.te/

-ate (masculine singular -at, feminine singular -ată, masculine plural -ați)

1. used with a stem to form the feminine plural past participle of regular -a (first conjugation) verbs. (e.g. lăsate, măsurate, etc.)