Basic Guidelines For English Spellings
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suffix
1Forming nouns denoting status or office.
‘doctorate’- ‘episcopate’
- 1.1Forming nouns denoting a state or function.‘curate’
- ‘mandate’
2Forming nouns denoting a group.
- ‘electorate’
3Chemistry
Forming nouns denoting a salt or ester, especially of an acid with a corresponding name ending in -ic.‘chlorate’- ‘nitrate’
4Forming nouns denoting a product of a chemical process.
‘condensate’- ‘filtrate’
Origin
From Old French -at or Latin -atus, -ata, -atum.
suffix
1Forming adjectives and nouns such as associate, duplicate, separate.
2Forming adjectives from Latin.
- ‘caudate’
Origin
From Latin -atus, -ata, -atum.
suffix
Forming verbs such as fascinate, hyphenate.
Origin
From -ate; originally forms were based on existing past participial adjectives ending in -atus, but were later extended to any Latin verb ending in -are and to French verbs ending in -er.
Pronunciation
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