-ate

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