-oate

American  

1. a combining form used in the names of chemical compounds containing the ester or >C=O group of the compound specified by the initial element.

   benzoate.

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Etymology

Origin of -oate

-o(ic) (as in benzoic ) + -ate ²

Example Sentences

Now, to increase their audience, they are introducing Oaté Modern Ice Crème, in 14-ounce containers at the end of the month.

From New York Times

And Oaté — it’s pronounced oh-uh-tay, the website helpfully notes — makes an oat milk ice cream that is free of several of the most common allergens: dairy, egg, soy, gluten and nuts.

From Washington Post

Tityrus, happilie thou lyste tumbling under a beech tree, All in a fine oate pipe these sweete songs lustilie chaunting: We, poore soules goe to wracke, and from these coastes be remooved, And fro our pastures sweete: thou Tityr, at ease in a shade plott Makst thicke groves to resound with songes of brave Amarillis.

From Project Gutenberg

Which is by him fully described in the Observation touching the Beard of a wild Oate, by the means whereof this Instrument is contrived.

From Project Gutenberg

You shall vnderstand that there be diuers kindes of them, as namely, the great long white Oate, the great long blacke Oate, the cut Oate, and the skegge: the two first of these are knowne by their greatnesse and colours, for they are long, full, bigge, and smooth, and are fittest to be sowne vpon the best of barraine grounds, for sith Oates are the worst of graine, I will giue them no other prioritie of place.

From Project Gutenberg