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
• citrate cycle
• citratemia
• 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: Mandarin: 檸檬酸鹽 / 柠檬酸盐 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 (ja) (くえんさんえん, kuensan'en) Polish: cytrynian (pl) m Russian: цитра́т (ru) m (citrát) Spanish: citrato (es) 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

Translations

cause to form citrate

Chinese: Mandarin: 使檸檬酸化 / 使柠檬酸化 (shǐ níngméngsuānhuà) Dutch: please add this translation if you can Finnish: sitratoida

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