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Where does “lactate” come from?

Lactate derives from Latin lacto, from Latin lac meaning milk, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ǵlákts with the participial suffix -tós.

lactate (English): To secrete or produce milk; Any salt or ester of...

Definitions

  1. To secrete or produce milk; Any salt or ester of...

Ancestry of “lactate”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-atehaving the specified thing; characterized by the...
2English-cyUsed to form nouns of state, condition or quality...
3Anglo-Norman-cie—
4Latin-tiaoffice, rank
5Latin-iaUsed to form a feminine abstract noun, usually...
6Latin-iusforming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter...
7Proto-Italic-jōsForms comparative adjectives
8Proto-Indo-European-yósCreates adjectives from noun or verb stems

Words derived from “lactate”

  • lactating
  • nonlactating
  • hyperlactatemia
  • lactatemia
  • relactate
  • lactator
  • dilactate
  • postlactating
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