English
nitrate
Nitrate comes from French nitrate.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentnitrate
- Englishearliest quotation 1992same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentnitrate
- Englishearliest quotation 1992same form
Earliest quotation: 1992, Removal of Nitrates: “Nitrates are most commonly used in fertilizers, especially sodium…”
Every English word from French nitrate
Today it means
noun Any salt or ester of nitric acid.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French nitrate / nitrate