different between satis vs saturate

English

Etymology

Clipping of satisfy. Enhanced by ancestral Latin satis.

Adjective

satis (comparative more satis, superlative most satis)

1. (colloquial) Clipping of satisfied.

Verb

satis

1. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) Clipping of satisfy.

Anagrams

• Stasi, Tassi, Tissa, Tsais, saist, sista, tasis

Esperanto

Verb

satis

1. past of sati

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sh?tis (“satiation, satisfaction”), from *seh?- (“to satiate, be satisfied”). Cognates include Sanskrit ?????? (asinva, “insatiable”), Ancient Greek ?? (á?, “to satiate”) and Old English sæd (“full, sated”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sa.tis/, [?s?ät??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sa.tis/, [?s??t?is]

Participle

sat?s

1. dative masculine plural of satus
2. dative feminine plural of satus
3. dative neuter plural of satus
4. ablative masculine plural of satus
5. ablative feminine plural of satus
6. ablative neuter plural of satus

Noun

sat?s

1. dative plural of sata
2. ablative plural of sata

Adjective

satis (indeclinable)

1. enough, filled, plenty

Adverb

satis (not comparable)

1. adequately, sufficiently

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• satis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• satis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• satis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• satis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 540

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin satur?tus, perfect passive participle of satur?re (“to fill full”), from satur (“full”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sæt????e?t/

Verb

saturate (third-person singular simple present saturates, present participle saturating, simple past and past participle saturated)

1. To cause to become completely impregnated, or soaked (especially with a liquid).
   • 1815, in the Annals of Philosophy, volume 6, page 332:

     Suppose, on the contrary, that a piece of charcoal saturated with hydrogen gas is put into a receiver filled with carbonic acid gas, […]

2. (figuratively) To fill to excess.

3. To satisfy the affinity of; to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold.

4. (optics) To render pure, or of a colour free from white light.

Related terms

Translations

Noun

saturate (plural saturates)

1. (chemistry) Something saturated, especially a saturated fat.
   • 1999, Tom Brody, Nutritional Biochemistry, Academic Press (?ISBN), page 363

     Through formation of a double bond, stearic acid (18:0), a saturate, is converted to acid (18:1), a monounsaturate.

Adjective

saturate (comparative more saturate, superlative most saturate)

1. Saturated; wet.
2. (entomology) Very intense.

Further reading

• saturate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• saturate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• saturate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• artuates, taurates, tuateras

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /satu?rate/

Verb

saturate

1. adverbial present passive participle of saturar

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.tu?ra.te/

Adjective

saturate

1. feminine plural of saturato

Verb

saturate

1. second-person plural present indicative of saturare
2. second-person plural imperative of saturare
3. feminine plural of the past participle of saturare

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sa.tu?ra?.te/, [s?ät????ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sa.tu?ra.te/, [s?t?u????t??]

Verb

satur?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of satur?