ate

The definition of ate is to have eaten.

(verb)

A person who just consumed a burger and fries is an example of someone who ate.

The definition of ate as a prefix is to indicate the salt of an acid, or is used to show offices, functions, institutions or leaders.

(suffix)

An example of ate used to form the name of an acid's salt is in the word nitrate.
An example of ate used as a suffix is in the word "senate," which means the collection of senators.

See ate in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb, intransitive verb

eat

noun

Gr. Myth. the goddess personifying criminal folly or reckless ambition in human beings, which brings on punishment by Nemesis

Origin: Gr Atē

1. to become: evaporate, maturate
2. to cause to become: invalidate, rejuvenate
3. to form or produce: ulcerate
4. to provide or treat with: vaccinate
5. to put in the form of, or form by means of: delineate, triangulate
6. to arrange for: orchestrate
7. to combine, infuse, or treat with: oxygenate
1. of or characteristic of: collegiate, roseate
2. having or filled with: foliolate, passionate
3. Biol. having or characterized by: caudate
forming adjectives roughly equivalent to corresponding past participles ending in -ed: animate (animated), determinate (determined)

an office, function, agent, official, or group of officials: episcopate, potentate, directorate
the land, territory, or dominion of (a person or office): priorate, sultanate
a person or thing that is the object of (an action): legate, mandate
Chem.
1. salt made from any of certain acids with names ending in -ic: its metal or nonmetal is in its highest oxidation state: ammonium nitrate
2. a result of some process: distillate