different between ruinate vs quinate

English

Etymology

From the participle stem of Latin ruino.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??u??ne?t/

Verb

ruinate (third-person singular simple present ruinates, present participle ruinating, simple past and past participle ruinated)

1. (transitive, now rare) To reduce to ruins; to destroy.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.viii:

     Towres, Cities, Kingdomes ye would ruinate, / In your auengement and dispiteous rage […].

   • , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.51:

     […] as in lust, [animals] covet carnal copulation at set times, men always, ruinating thereby the health of their bodies.

2. (intransitive) To fall; to tumble.

Adjective

ruinate (not comparable)

1. Falling into ruin; decrepit.

Anagrams

• Iturean, Taurine, taurine, uranite, urinate

English

Etymology 1

First attested in 1760; from the post-Classical Latin qu?n?tus, from the distributive numeral qu?n? (“five each”, “five at a time”); compare binate, ternate, and quaternate, as well as the French quiné.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kw??n?t, IPA^(key): /?kwa?n?t/
• (UK) enPR: kw??n?t, IPA^(key): /?kw??ne?t/
• (US) enPR: kw??n?t', IPA^(key): /?kwa??ne?t/

Adjective

quinate (not comparable)

1. (botany, of a compound leaf) Featuring five leaflets growing from a single point; quinquefoliolate.
   • 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

     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.

References

• “quinate, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]
• “quinate, adj.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [3rd ed., December 2007]

Etymology 2

First attested in 1810; either quin(a) +? -ate or quin(ic) +? -ate, in either case perhaps after the French quinquinate; compare the French kinate, quinate.

Alternative forms

• kinate

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kw??n?t, kw??n?t, IPA^(key): /?kw?n?t/, /?kwa?n?t/
• (UK) enPR: kw??n?t, k??n?t, IPA^(key): /?kw?ne?t/, /?k?ne?t/
• (US) enPR: kw??n?t', k??n?t', IPA^(key): /?kw??ne?t/, /?k??ne?t/

Noun

quinate (plural quinates)

1. (chemistry) An ester or a salt of quinic acid.
   • 1810, Thomas Thomson, A System of Chemistry (4th ed.), volume 3, page 106

     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.

References

• “quinate, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]
• “quinate, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [3rd ed., December 2007]

Anagrams

• Antique, antique

Latin

Adjective

qu?n?te

1. vocative masculine singular of qu?n?tus