# phosphate
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈfɒsfeɪt/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈfɑsfeɪt/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Etymology 1

From French phosphate. By surface analysis, phosphoric acid +‎ -ate (“salt or ester”).

#### Noun

phosphate (plural phosphates)
* (chemistry) Any salt or ester of phosphoric acid.
** 2009 February 26, Julie Scelfo, “When It Comes to Detergents, What’s the Least Irresponsible Choice?”, in The New York Times‎:Make sure you don’t use detergents with phosphates or nonylphenol ethoxylate surfactants, but that information is rarely available on the labels.
* (agriculture) Any fertiliser containing phosphate compounds.
* Guano (containing high levels of phosphates and harvested for the fertiliser industry).
* (US, regional, dated) A carbonated soft drink containing phosphoric acid, often flavored with a fruit-based syrup.
** 1920, Irving P. Fox, The Spatula, page 27:An egg phosphate is a phosphate to which an egg has been added in the proper manner. While an egg phosphate can be flavored with any syrup that makes a good phosphate, still the standard flavor by long usage has com to be orange […]
** 2002, Michael Raleigh, In the castle of the Flynns, page 180:“This man here,” she said, “can make you a cherry Coke or a chocolate Coke or a phosphate — a chocolate phosphate or. “Vanilla phosphate,” the man helped, “cherry phosphate, orange phosphate, lime phosphate, lemon phosphate,
** 2008, Kathryn Kysar, Riding shotgun: women write about their mothers, page 106:You order California burgers for us both, even though I don't eat lettuce or tomato, then you order me a phosphate, cherry, a dreadful fizzy drink you say you always loved. It's bitter, bubbly, unbearable; but, thirsty for your past, force myself to drink it.

##### Derived terms

* adenosine phosphate
* alkylglycerone phosphate synthase
* alkyl phosphate
* aluminophosphate
* ammonium phosphate
* ammonium phosphate
* aryldialkylphosphatase
* biphosphate
* bisphosphate
* boron phosphate
* borophosphate
* cadmium phosphate
* calcium dihydrogen phosphate
* calcium phosphate
* carbamoyl phosphate
* chalcogenophosphate
* chlorophosphate
* creatine phosphate
* creatinolfosfate
* cyclophosphate
* decaphosphate
* diammonium phosphate
* dihydrogen phosphate
* diphosphate
* disodium hydrogen phosphate
* disodium phosphate
* dithiophosphate
* ecothiopate
* ferric phosphate
* ferrous phosphate
* fluophosphate
* fluorophosphate
* fosfestrol
* fructose 6-phosphate
* galactosephosphate
* glucose 6-phosphate
* glucose-6-phosphate isomerase
* glycerolphosphate
* halophosphate
* hexakisphosphate
* hexametaphosphate
* hexaphosphate
* high energy phosphate
* hydrogen phosphate
* hydroxyphosphate
* hydroxypropyl starch phosphate
* hypophosphate
* inorganic phosphate
* inositol phosphate
* iron phosphate
* isopropylphosphate
* magnesium phosphate
* metaphosphate
* metrifonate
* monocalcium phosphate
* monophosphate
* monopotassium phosphate
* natrophosphate
* nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate
* nonphosphate
* oligophosphate
* organophosphate
* organphosphate
* orthophosphate
* paraphosphate
* pentakisphosphate
* pentaphosphate
* pentose phosphate pathway
* phosphagen
* phosphataemia
* phosphatase
* phosphate acetyltransferase
* phosphate bond
* phosphate butyryltransferase
* phosphated
* phosphated distarch phosphate
* phosphate glass
* phosphate island
* phosphatemia
* phosphatemia
* phosphate rock
* phosphatian
* phosphatic
* phosphatide
* phosphatise
* phosphatization
* phosphatize
* phosphaturia
* phosphoribosylpyrophosphate
* polyestradiol phosphate
* polyphosphate
* potassium titanyl phosphate
* pyrophosphate
* quadriphosphate
* radiophosphate
* riboflavin-5-sodium phosphate
* selenophosphate
* silicophosphate
* sodium aluminium phosphate
* sodium dithiophosphate
* sodium hexametaphosphate
* sodium hydrogen phosphate
* sodium monofluorophosphate
* sodium phosphate
* sodium phosphate tribasic
* sodium trimetaphosphate
* sodium tripolyphosphate
* sugar phosphate
* superphosphate
* tetrakisphosphate
* tetraphosphate
* tetrathiophosphate
* thermophosphate
* thiophosphate
* tributyl phosphate
* tricalcium phosphate
* tricresyl phosphate
* triose phosphate
* triosephosphate
* triosephosphateisomerase
* triphenylphosphate
* triphosphate
* trisodium phosphate
* trisodium phosphate dodecahydrate
* trisphosphate
* trithiophosphate
* uranium phosphate
* uranyl phosphate
* vanadious phosphate

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From phosphoric acid +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix).

#### Verb

phosphate (third-person singular simple present phosphates, present participle phosphating, simple past and past participle phosphated)
* To treat or coat with a phosphate or phosphoric acid.

##### Translations
## French
### Etymology

From phosphore +‎ -ate.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɔs.fat/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

phosphate m (plural phosphates)
* phosphate

#### Descendants

* → English: phosphate
* → Portuguese: fosfato

### Further reading

* “phosphate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.