Noun: differentiate
| Singular | differentiate |
| Plural | differentiates |
Sample Sentences
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There is no discernable tendency, however, for the differentiates to fall into two extremities, as would be expected if they were trending toward distinct eutectics in a residua system. [1969, Alexander R. McBirney, Geology and Petrology of the Galápagos Islands, page 185:]
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This latter terminology is particularly favored by Soviet petrologists, e.g.. Bogatikov et al. (1985), who believe that any magma typically exhibits both agpaitic and miascitic differentiates. [1991, Roger H. Mitchell, Petrology of Lamproites, page 10:]
Nouns inflected like differentiate
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
3. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
4. Proto-Italic *dis-
5. Latin dis-
6. Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-
7. Proto-Indo-European *-eti
8. Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti
9. Proto-Italic *ferō
10. Latin ferō
11. Latin differō
12. Latin differēns
13. Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós
14. Proto-Italic *-ijos
15. Proto-Italic *-ios
16. Old Latin -ios
17. Latin -ius
18. Latin -ia
19. Latin differentia
20. New Latin differentiō
21. New Latin differentiātusbor.
22. English differentiate
23. From New Latin differentiātus, perfect passive participle of differentiō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from Latin differentia (“difference”); see difference. See: Latin Nouns '
differentia'.