English Explanatory Dictionary

-oate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

-oate

Etymology

From -oic + -ate.

Related words

-oic
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