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-ate

to make or act; having the quality of

Latin · -atus (participle)

-ate root meaning picture

Forms verbs meaning to make or do (activate, educate) and adjectives meaning having a quality (fortunate, moderate). As a verb it is said "ayt"; as an adjective often "it".

Memory trick

-ate is a gate: it turns a word into an action, so act becomes activate.

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