noun
Meaning 1
Any salt or ester of carbonic acid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
carbonate
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Pronunciation
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UK: käʹbənāt
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UK: käʹbənət
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UK: /ˈkɑː(ɹ).bə.neɪt/
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UK: /ˈkɑː(ɹ).bə.nət/
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US: kärʹbənāt
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US: kärʹbənət
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US: /ˈkɑɹbəneɪt/
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CMU ARPABET: K AA1 R B AH0 N EY2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
To charge (often a beverage) with carbon dioxide.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
Meaning 3
a salt or ester of carbonic acid (containing the anion CO3)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: salt
Narrower terms: ammonium carbonate, bicarbonate, hydrogen carbonate, potassium carbonate, calcium carbonate, lithium carbonate, Lithane, Lithonate, Eskalith, magnesium carbonate
verb
Meaning 4
treat with carbon dioxide
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Carbonated soft drinks
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Broader terms: process, treat
verb
Meaning 5
turn into a carbonate
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: change
History
Etymology
From French carbonate, equivalent of carbon + -ate (“suffix used for salts of acids ending in -ic”).
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).
Across languages
Translations
38 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: carbonat — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- Chinese Cantonese: 碳酸鹽 /碳酸盐 (taan3 syun1 jim4) — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- Chinese Mandarin: 碳酸鹽 /碳酸盐 (tànsuānyán) — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- Czech: uhličitan — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- Czech: karbonát — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- Danish: karbonat — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- Dutch: carbonaat — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- Estonian: karbonaadid — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- Finnish: karbonaatti — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- French: carbonate — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- German: Karbonat — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- Hungarian: karbonát — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- Icelandic: karbónat — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- Indonesian: karbonat — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- Irish: carbónáit — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- Italian: carbonato — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- Japanese: 炭酸塩 (tansan'en) — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- Latvian: karbonāti — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- Māori: pākawawaro — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- Norwegian Bokmål: karbonat — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- Norwegian Nynorsk: karbonat — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- Polish: węglan — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- Portuguese: carbonato — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- Romanian: carbonat — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- Russian: карбона́т (karbonát) — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- Serbo-Croatian: карбо̀на̄т — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- Serbo-Croatian: karbònāt — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- Spanish: carbonato — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- Swedish: karbonat — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- Telugu: కార్బొనేటు (kārbonēṭu) — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- Turkish: karbonat — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- Vietnamese: cacbonat — any salt or ester of carbonic acid
- Polish: karbonizować — Translations
- Polish: skarbonizować — Translations
- Spanish: gasificar — Translations
- Spanish: gasear — Translations
- Spanish: carbonatar — Translations
- Swedish: kolsyra — Translations
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