lactate

Other forms of lactate

plural

lactates·

past tense

lactated·

present participle

lactating·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lactate

What does lactate mean?

lactate means "a salt or ester of lactic acid". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lactate?

lactate has 2 syllables: lac-tate. The stress falls on "lac". In IPA it is /ˈlækteɪt/.

What is another word for lactate?

Close synonyms include breastfeed, suckle, suck, nurse, wet-nurse. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lactate a common word?

lactate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.