-ate

Betekenis (Engels)

1. forms adjectives with meaning "having the specified thing"
2. forms adjectives with meaning "characterized by the specified thing"
3. forms adjectives with meaning "resembling the specified thing"

Sinonieme

ate

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ət/

Etimologie (Engels)

From the Latin perfect passive participle suffixes of first conjugation verbs -ātus, -āta, and -ātum. In Middle English, it was written -at (then desolat for current desolate). Doublet of -ee and -ed.