lactate

• (UK, noun) IPA^(key): /ˈlæk.teɪt/

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• (UK, verb) IPA^(key): /lækˈteɪt/

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  • Rhymes: -eɪt
• (US, noun, verb) IPA^(key): /ˈlæk.teɪt/

Borrowed from Latin lactātus, perfect passive participle of lactō (“to suckle, give suck, contain milk”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from lac (“milk”), cognate to Ancient Greek γάλα (gála, “milk”).

lactate (third-person singular simple present lactates, present participle lactating, simple past and past participle lactated)

1. (intransitive) To secrete or produce milk.

From lactic acid +‎ -ate (“salt or ester”).

lactate (plural lactates)

1. (chemistry) Any salt or ester of lactic acid.
2. Ellipsis of lactate ion.

• “lactate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “lactate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “lactate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

From lact- +‎ -ate.

• IPA^(key): /lak.tat/

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lactate m (plural lactates)

1. lactate

• “lactate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

lactāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of lactō

lactate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of lactar combined with te