Word Type
-ate is a suffix:
- having the specified thing
"lobate — “having lobes”" - characterized by the specified thing
"Italianate — “characterized by Italian features”" - resembling the specified thing
"palmate — “resembling the palm”" - a thing characterised by the specified thing
"apostate — “one who is characterized by dissent”" - a rank or office
"rabbinate — “the office of a rabbi”" - a derivative of a specified element or compound; especially a salt or ester of an acid whose name ends in -ic
"acetate — “a salt or ester of acetic acid”" - to act in the specified manner
"abbreviate — “to act by making (something) brief”"
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What type of word is -ate?
- Suffix usage: lobate — “having lobes”
- Suffix usage: Italianate — “characterized by Italian features”
- Suffix usage: palmate — “resembling the palm”
- Suffix usage: apostate — “one who is characterized by dissent”
- Suffix usage: rabbinate — “the office of a rabbi”
- Suffix usage: acetate — “a salt or ester of acetic acid”
- Suffix usage: abbreviate — “to act by making (something) brief”
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of -ate are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of -ate, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
