borate

See also: Borate and boraté

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Middle Persian *bōragbor.

Arabic بَوْرَق (bawraq)der.

Medieval Latin boraxder.

Anglo-Norman boreisbor.

Middle English boras

English borax

English boro-

Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃-der.?

Latin carbōnemlbor.

French carbonebor.

English carbonbf.

English -on

English bor(on)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos

Proto-Italic *-ātos

Latin -atusbor.

English -ate

English borate

From bor(on) + -ate.

Pronunciation

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Noun

borate (plural borates)

2. (inorganic chemistry) The oxyanion BO₃^3- or any of several more complex derivatives.
4. Any salt or ester formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical.

   Hyponym: borax

Derived terms

• aluminium borate
• ammonioborite
• borate bomber
• borated
• boratian
• borating
• boratoan
• caesium borate, cesium borate
• carboborate
• decaborate
• diborate
• fluoborate
• hydroborate
• hydroboration
• hypoborate
• inoborate
• monoborate
• nesoborate
• orthoborate
• oxoborate
• pentaborate
• perborate
• phylloborate
• polyborate
• silico-borate, silicoborate
• sodium terbium borate
• soroborate
• tektoborate
• tetraborate
• tetrahydroxyborate
• tetraphenylborate
• triborate
• trimethylborate
• trispyrazolylborate
• tungstoborate
• undecaborate

Related terms

• boron

Translations

salt of boric acid

• Catalan: borat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 硼酸鹽 / 硼酸盐 (péngsuānyán)

• Czech: boritan m, borát m
• Dutch: boraat (nl) n
• French: borate (fr) m
• German: Borat n
• Hungarian: borát (hu)
• Irish: bóráit f
• Italian: borato (it) m
• Japanese: 硼酸塩 (ja) (ほうさんえん, hōsan'en)
• Kazakh: борат (borat)
• Macedonian: бо́рат m (bórat)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: borat n

  Nynorsk: borat n

• Polish: boran m
• Swedish: borat (sv) n

Anagrams

• boater, orbate, rebato

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boˈrate/

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• Rhymes: -ate
• Syllabification: bo‧ra‧te

Adverb

borate

1. present adverbial passive participle of bori

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔ.ʁat/

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Noun

borate m (plural borates)

1. borate

Related terms

• bore

Further reading

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

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Verb

borate

1. adverbial present passive participle of borar