Borrowed fromLatinlactātus,perfectpassiveparticiple oflactō(“to suckle, give suck, contain milk”) (see-ate(verb-forming suffix)), fromlac(“milk”), cognate toAncient Greekγάλα(gála,“milk”).
lactate (third-person singular simple presentlactates,present participlelactating,simple past and past participlelactated)
- (intransitive) Tosecrete orproducemilk.
Lactate ionFromlactic acid +-ate(“salt or ester”).
lactate (plurallactates)
- (chemistry) Anysalt orester oflactic acid.
- Ellipsis oflactate ion.
any salt or ester of lactic acid
- “lactate”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “lactate”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
- “lactate”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
Fromlact- +-ate.
lactate m (plurallactates)
- lactate
lactāte
- second-personpluralpresentactiveimperative oflactō
lactate
- second-personsingular voseoimperative oflactar combined withte
