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-oate

-oate suffix: used to form the names of salts and esters of carboxylic acids e.g. benzoate, hexanoate.

Suffix

-oate

  1. Used to form the names of salts and esters of carboxylic acids e.g. benzoate, hexanoate

-oate meaning in Tamil

-oate in Tamil

ஓயேட்டு

Origin of -oate

From -oic + -ate.

Questions about -oate

What does -oate mean?
-oate means used to form the names of salts and esters of carboxylic acids e.g. benzoate, hexanoate.
What is -oate in Tamil?
-oate in Tamil is ஓயேட்டு. See -oate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is -oate?
-oate is a suffix.

Words near -oate in the dictionary

  1. -o-matic
  2. -o-meter
  3. -o-rama
  4. -o-saurus
  5. -oan
  6. -oate
  7. -obe
  8. -ock
  9. -ocracy
  10. -ocratic
  11. -odd

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -oate (page history and authors); -oate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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