# fosfato
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [fusˈfa.tu]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [fosˈfa.to]

### Verb

fosfato
* first-person singular present indicative of fosfatar

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From English phosphate, French phosphate, etc.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [fosˈfato]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ato
* Hyphenation: fos‧fa‧to

### Noun

fosfato (accusative singular fosfaton, plural fosfatoj, accusative plural fosfatojn)
* (chemistry) phosphate

#### Derived terms

* fosfata
* polifosfato
* trifosfato

#### Related terms

* fosfata acido / fosfatacido / fosforacido / fosfora acido

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto fosfato, English phosphate, French phosphate, German Phosphate, Italian fosfato, Russian фосфа́т (fosfát), Spanish fosfato.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fosˈfato/
* Rhymes: -ato
* Hyphenation: fos‧fa‧to

### Noun

fosfato (plural fosfati)
* (chemistry) phosphate

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /foˈsfa.to/
* Rhymes: -ato
* Hyphenation: fo‧sfà‧to

### Etymology 1

From fosf(oro) (“phosphorus”) +‎ -ato, on the model of French phosphate.

#### Noun

fosfato m (plural fosfati)
* (chemistry) phosphate

##### Derived terms

* fosfatico (“phosphatic”)
* fosfato di ammonio
* fosfato di calcio (“calcium phosphate”)
* fosfato di magnesio
* fosfato di potassio
* fosfato di sodio

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

fosfato
* first-person singular present indicative of fosfatare

### Further reading

* fosfato in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
* fosfato in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
* fosfato in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
* fosfato in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
* fosfàto in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
* fosfato in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
* fosfato in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French phosphate.

#### Alternative forms

* phosphato (obsolete)

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /fosˈfa.tu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /fosˈfa.tu/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /foʃˈfa.tu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /fosˈfa.to/
* (Portugal) IPA: /fuʃˈfa.tu/
* Rhymes: -atu
* Hyphenation: fos‧fa‧to

#### Noun

fosfato m (plural fosfatos)
* phosphate (any salt or ester of phosphoric acid)

##### Derived terms

* fosfatar

##### Related terms

* fósforo

#### References

* ↑ “fosfato”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* ↑ “fosfato”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

fosfato
* first-person singular present indicative of fosfatar

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fosˈfato/ [fosˈfa.t̪o]
* Rhymes: -ato
* Syllabification: fos‧fa‧to

### Etymology 1

From fósforo +‎ -ato.

#### Noun

fosfato m (plural fosfatos)
* (chemistry) phosphate

##### Derived terms

* bifosfato (“biphosphate”)
* difosfato (“diphosphate”)
* monofosfato (“monophosphate”)
* organofosfato (“organophosphate”)
* pirofosfato (“pyrophosphate”)
* trifosfato (“triphosphate”)

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

fosfato
* first-person singular present indicative of fosfatar

### Further reading

* “fosfato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10