quinate

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
/ˈkwaɪnət/|/ˈkwʌɪneɪt/    /ˈkwaɪˌneɪt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Featuring five leaflets growing from a single point; quinquefoliolate. not-comparable
    — 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.

词形变化

quinates plural kinate alternative

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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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