Meanings
quinate1
- not comparablebiologyFeaturing five leaflets growing from a single point; quinquefoliolate.
They are termed Binate, Ternate, or Quinate, growing two, three, or five together, according to the number of Folioles, of which the digitate Leaf consists.
1760, James Lee, An Introduction to Botany, Containing an Explanation of the Theory of That Science, and an Interpretation of Its Technical Terms, Extracted from the Works of Linnæus, book 3, chapter 6, page 183
quinate2
plural quinates · alternative kinate
- chemistryAn ester or a salt of quinic acid.
Kinates. Hitherto only one species of this genus of salts has been examined, the kinate of lime, which exists in a species of Peruvian bark.
1810, Thomas Thomson, A System of Chemistry, 4th edition, volume 3, page 106
Origin
quinate · adjective
- Latinquīnātus
- Englishquinate
First attested in 1760. From the post-Classical Latin quīnātus, from the distributive numeral quīnī (“five each”, “five at a time”); compare binate, ternate, and quaternate, as well as the French quiné.
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Full word history & related roots →quinate · noun
- Frenchquinquinate
- Englishquinate
First attested in 1810. Either from quin(a) + -ate (“salt or ester”) or quinic acid + -ate, in either case perhaps after the French quinquinate; compare the French kinate, quinate.
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