fosfato

• IPA^(key): (Central) [fusˈfa.tu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [fosˈfa.to]

fosfato

1. first-person singular present indicative of fosfatar

From English phosphate, French phosphate, etc.

• IPA^(key): [fosˈfato]
• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: fos‧fa‧to

fosfato (accusative singular fosfaton, plural fosfatoj, accusative plural fosfatojn)

1. (chemistry) phosphate

• fosfata acido / fosfatacido / fosforacido / fosfora acido

Borrowed from Esperanto fosfato, English phosphate, French phosphate, German Phosphate, Italian fosfato, Russian фосфа́т (fosfát), Spanish fosfato.

• IPA^(key): /fosˈfato/
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: fos‧fa‧to

fosfato (plural fosfati)

1. (chemistry) phosphate

• IPA^(key): /foˈsfa.to/
• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: fo‧sfà‧to

From fosf(oro) (“phosphorus”) +‎ -ato, on the model of French phosphate.

fosfato m (plural fosfati)

1. (chemistry) phosphate

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fosfato

1. first-person singular present indicative of fosfatare

• fosfato in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• fosfato in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• fosfato in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• fosfato in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• fosfàto in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• fosfato in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
• fosfato in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Borrowed from French phosphate.[1][2]

• phosphato (obsolete)

• Rhymes: -atu
• Hyphenation: fos‧fa‧to

fosfato m (plural fosfatos)

1. phosphate (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)

• fosfatar

• fósforo

fosfato

1. first-person singular present indicative of fosfatar

• IPA^(key): /fosˈfato/ [fosˈfa.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: fos‧fa‧to

From fósforo +‎ -ato.

fosfato m (plural fosfatos)

1. (chemistry) phosphate

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fosfato

1. first-person singular present indicative of fosfatar

• “fosfato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014