-ate1
/ət/ /eɪt/suffix
Forming nouns:
1Denoting status or office: doctorate episcopate
1.1Denoting a state or function: curate mandate
2Denoting a group: electorate
3 Chemistry Denoting a salt or ester, especially of an acid with a corresponding name ending in -ic: chlorate nitrate
4Denoting a product of a chemical process: condensate filtrate
Origin
From Old French -at or Latin -atus, -ata, -atum.
-ate2
/ət/ /eɪt/suffix
1Forming adjectives and nouns such as associate, duplicate, separate.
2Forming adjectives from Latin: caudate
Origin
From Latin -atus, -ata, -atum.
-ate3
/eɪt/suffix
Forming verbs such as fascinate, hyphenate.
Origin
From -ate2; originally forms were based on existing past participial adjectives ending in -atus, but were later extended to any Latin verb ending in -are and to French verbs ending in -er.
- mother's child
- mother's darling
- mother's daughter
- Mother's Day
- mother's help
- mother ship
- Mother Shipton
- mothersick
- mothersickness
- mother's knee
- mother's little helper
- mothers' meeting
- mother's meeting
- mother's milk
- mother's pet
- mother's ruin
- mother's side
- mother's son
- mother-substitute
- Mothers' Union
- Mother's Union
- Mother Superior
- mother surrogate
- mother-symbol
- mother tincture