carbonate

See also: Carbonate and carbonaté

English

Pronunciation

noun

• (UK) enPR: käʹbənāt, käʹbənət, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː(ɹ).bə.neɪt/, /ˈkɑː(ɹ).bə.nət/

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• (US) enPR: kärʹbənāt, kärʹbənət, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹbəneɪt/, /ˈkɑɹbənət/

verb

• (UK) enPR: käʹbənāt, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː(ɹ).bə.neɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) enPR: kärʹbənāt, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹbəneɪt/

Etymology 1

From French carbonate, equivalent of carbon +‎ -ate (“suffix used for salts of acids ending in -ic”).

Noun

carbonate (plural carbonates)

1. Any salt or ester of carbonic acid.
   • 2024 April 21, Laura Paddison, “Can this ocean-based carbon plant help save the world? Some scientists are raising red flags”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     A sample of carbon removed from the ocean in the solid form of calcium carbonate and magnesium hydroxide from UCLA's SeaChange program -- now known as Equatic -- in 2023.

   • 2025 January 29, Ashley Strickland, “Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     McCoy’s team, including 66 researchers across four continents, found the salt and minerals left behind as water on Bennu, or its larger parent asteroid, evaporated. The minerals include sodium phosphates, carbonates, sulfates, chlorides and fluorides, some of which are necessary to the formation of life.

Hyponyms

• ammonium carbonate
• barium carbonate
• bicarbonate
• bismuth carbonate
• cadmium carbonate
• calcium carbonate
• calcium magnesium carbonate
• cap carbonate
• carbonate of lime
• copper carbonate
• cupric carbonate
• dicarbonate
• diethyl carbonate
• dimethyl carbonate
• ferrous carbonate
• fluocarbonate
• hydrocarbonate
• hydrogen carbonate
• hydrogen potassium carbonate
• iron(II) carbonate
• lead carbonate
• lithium carbonate
• magnesium carbonate
• manganese carbonate
• metacarbonate
• oxycarbonate
• percarbonate
• potassic carbonate
• potassium acid carbonate
• potassium carbonate
• potassium hydrogen carbonate
• silver carbonate
• sodium carbonate
• sodium carbonate peroxyhydrate
• sodium hydrogen carbonate
• strontium carbonate
• sulfocarbonate
• sulphocarbonate
• thorium carbonate
• urano-ammonic carbonate
• uranoso-ammonic carbonate
• uranyl carbonate
• zinc carbonate

Derived terms

• biscarbonate
• borocarbonate
• carbonate-apatite
• carbonate ion
• carbonate of potash
• carbonate of potassa
• carbonate of potassium
• carbonate-orthopyroxenite
• carbonate strontianite
• carbonatian
• carbonatic
• carbonatite
• carbonatization
• carbonatize
• carbonatogenesis
• carbonatogenic
• decacarbonate
• decarbonate
• dithiocarbonate
• dodecacarbonate
• ethylene carbonate
• fluorocarbonate
• heptacarbonate
• hexacarbonate
• hydrogen carbonate ion
• hydroxycarbonate
• monocarbonate
• noncarbonate
• octacarbonate
• orthocarbonate
• paleocarbonate
• pentacarbonate
• polycarbonate
• protocarbonate
• pyrocarbonate
• recarbonate
• sesquicarbonate
• subcarbonate
• supercarbonate
• tetracarbonate
• thiocarbonate
• tricarbonate

Translations

any salt or ester of carbonic acid

• Catalan: carbonat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 碳酸鹽 / 碳酸盐 (taan³ syun¹ jim⁴)

  Mandarin: 碳酸鹽 / 碳酸盐 (zh) (tànsuānyán)

• Czech: uhličitan (cs) m, karbonát m
• Danish: karbonat n
• Dutch: carbonaat (nl) f
• Estonian: karbonaadid
• Finnish: karbonaatti (fi)
• French: carbonate (fr) m
• German: Karbonat n
• Hungarian: karbonát (hu)
• Icelandic: karbónat (is) n
• Indonesian: karbonat (id)
• Irish: carbónáit f
• Italian: carbonato (it) m
• Japanese: 炭酸塩 (ja) (たんさんえん, tansan'en)
• Latvian: karbonāti
• Māori: pākawawaro
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: karbonat n

  Nynorsk: karbonat n

• Polish: węglan (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: carbonato (pt)
• Romanian: carbonat (ro) m
• Russian: карбона́т (ru) m (karbonát)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: карбо̀на̄т m

  Latin: karbònāt (sh) m

• Spanish: carbonato (es)
• Swedish: karbonat (sv) c or n
• Telugu: కార్బొనేటు (kārbonēṭu)
• Turkish: karbonat (tr)
• Vietnamese: cacbonat

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃-der.?

Latin carbōnemlbor.

French carbonebor.

English carbon

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos

Proto-Italic *-ātos

Latin -ātuslbor.

English -ate

English carbonate

From carbon + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Verb

carbonate (third-person singular simple present carbonates, present participle carbonating, simple past and past participle carbonated)

1. (transitive) To charge (often a beverage) with carbon dioxide.

Derived terms

• carbonatable
• carbonatation
• carbonated
• carbonation
• carbonator

Translations

Translations

• Polish: karbonizować impf, skarbonizować pf
• Spanish: gasificar (es), gasear (es), carbonatar (es)
• Swedish: kolsyra (sv)

References

• carbonate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃-der.?

Latin carbōnemlbor.

French carbone

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos

Proto-Italic *-ātos

Latin -ātuslbor.

French -ate

French carbonate

From carbone +‎ -ate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaʁ.bɔ.nat/

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Noun

carbonate m (plural carbonates)

1. carbonate

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

carbonate f pl

1. plural of carbonata

Spanish

Verb

carbonate

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