Where does “silicate” come from?
Silicate comes from English silica plus the suffix -ate, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -tós, a past participle suffix.
silicate (English): Any salt of silica or of one of the silicic...
Definitions
- Any salt of silica or of one of the silicic...
Ancestry of “silicate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | -ate | having the specified thing; characterized by the... |
| 2 | English | -cy | Used to form nouns of state, condition or quality... |
| 3 | Anglo-Norman | -cie | — |
| 4 | Latin | -tia | office, rank |
| 5 | Latin | -ia | Used to form a feminine abstract noun, usually... |
| 6 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |
Words derived from “silicate”
- borosilicate
- aluminosilicate
- phyllosilicate
- metasilicate
- orthosilicate
- trisilicate
- disilicate
- fluosilicate
- tetraethylorthosilicate
- phosphosilicate
- oxyorthosilicate
- titanosilicate
- bisilicate
- polysilicate
- hydrosilicate
- subsilicate
- tectosilicate
- cyclosilicate
- molybdosilicate
- unisilicate
- protosilicate
- silicatization
- neosilicate
- zinalsite