citrate

See also: Citrate

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪtɹeɪt/

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Etymology 1

From citric acid +‎ -ate.

Noun

citrate (plural citrates)

1. (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of citric acid.

Coordinate terms

• Benedict's solution

Derived terms

• alloisocitrate
• bicitrate
• citratase
• citratemia
• citraturia
• citraturia
• dicitrate
• fentanyl citrate
• ferric ammonium citrate
• fluorocitrate
• homocitrate
• isocitrate
• lithium citrate
• monocitrate
• potassium citrate
• sildenafil citrate (Viagra)
• sodium citrate
• subcitrate
• tricitrate

 

Translations

salt or ester of citric acid

• Catalan: citrat m
• Chinese:

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• Czech: citran m, citrát m
• Finnish: sitraatti
• German: Citrat (de) n
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: ciotráit f
• Italian: citrato (it) m
• Japanese: 枸櫞酸塩 (くえんさんえん, kuensan'en)
• Polish: cytrynian (pl) m
• Russian: цитра́т (ru) m (citrát)
• Spanish: citrato m
• Swedish: citrat (sv) n
• Tagalog: sitrato

Etymology 2

From citric acid +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Verb

citrate (third-person singular simple present citrates, present participle citrating, simple past and past participle citrated)

1. To cause to form citrate.

Related terms

• citration

References

• “citrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• arctite, atretic, cattier

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

citrate m (plural citrates)

1. citrate

Further reading

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

Latin

Adjective

cītrāte

1. vocative masculine singular of cītrātus