-oate

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of -oate¹

-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.

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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.

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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.

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

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Now for the skegge Oate, it is a little, small, hungry, leane Oate, with a beard at the small end like a wilde Oate, and is good for small vse more then Pullen onely: it is a séede méete for the barrainest and worst earth, as fit to grow but there where nothing of better profit will grow.

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