hydrate

See also: Hydrate and hydraté

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French hydrate, coined by Joseph-Louis Proust, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + -ate.

Pronunciation

• enPR: hīʹdrāt, (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪdɹeɪt/

Noun

hydrate (plural hydrates)

1. (chemistry) A solid compound containing or linked to water molecules.
2. (inorganic chemistry, rare) Water.

Derived terms

terms derived from hydrate (noun)

• carbohydrate
• chloral hydrate
• decahydrate
• dihydrate
• dodecahydrate
• gas hydrate
• hemihydrate
• heptahydrate
• hexahydrate

• methane hydrate
• monohydrate
• nonahydrate
• octahydrate
• pentahydrate
• sesquihydrate
• tetrahydrate
• trihydrate
• undecahydrate

Translations

solid compound containing or linked to water molecules

• Albanian: hidrat (sq) m
• Arabic: هَايْدْرَات m (haydrāt)
• Armenian: հիդրատ (hidrat)
• Azerbaijani: hidrat
• Bulgarian: хидрат (bg) m (hidrát)
• Catalan: hidrat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水合物 (zh) (shuǐ hé wù)

• Czech: hydrát (cs) m
• Danish: hydrat (da) n
• Dutch: hydraat (nl) n
• Esperanto: hidrato (eo)
• Estonian: hüdraat
• Finnish: hydraatti (fi)
• French: hydrate (fr) m
• Georgian: ჰიდრატი (hidraṭi)
• German: Hydrat n
• Greek: ένυδρο άλας (énydro álas), υδρίτης m (ydrítis)
• Hindi: जलीय (jaleeya)
• Hungarian: hidrát (hu)
• Icelandic: hýdrat n
• Ido: hidrato (io)
• Irish: hiodráit f
• Italian: idrato (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 水和物 (すいわぶつ, suiwabutsu)
• Kazakh: гидрат (gidrat)
• Korean: 수화물 (ko) (水化物, suhwamul), 함수화합물 (含水化合物, hamsuhwahammul)
• Kyrgyz: гидрат (gidrat)
• Lithuanian: hidrãtas m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hydrat n

  Nynorsk: hydrat n

• Persian: هیدرات
• Polish: hydrat m
• Portuguese: hidrato (pt) m
• Romanian: hidrat (ro) m
• Russian: гидра́т (ru) m (gidrát)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хѝдра̄т m

  Roman: hìdrāt m

• Slovene: hidrát (sl) m
• Spanish: hidrato (es) m
• Swedish: hydrat (sv) n
• Tajik: гидрат (gidrat)
• Thai: ไฮเดรต (haidret)
• Turkish: hidrat (tr)
• Ukrainian: гідрат m (hidrát)
• Vietnamese: hydrat

See also

• hydrate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• water of crystallization

Verb

1. (transitive) To take up, consume or become linked to water.

   A lotion can hydrate the skin.

2. (slang) To drink water.
3. (programming) To load data from a database record into an object's variables

Synonyms

• (to add water to): bewater

Coordinate terms

• caffeinate

Derived terms

• dehydrate
• hydrate or diedrate
• hydration
• rehydrate

Translations

to absorb water

• Armenian: հիդրատացնել (hidratacʻnel)
• Bulgarian: хидратирам (hidratiram)
• Danish: hydrere (da)
• Greek: ενυδατώνω (el) (enydatóno)
• Irish: hiodráitigh
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: idratare (it)
• Korean: 수화시키다 (水化시키다, suhwasikida)
• Russian: гидрати́ровать (ru) (gidratírovatʹ)
• Spanish: hidratar (es)

Anagrams

• thready

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French

Etymology

hydr- +‎ -ate

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /i.dʁat/

Noun

hydrate m (plural hydrates)

1. (chemistry) hydrate

Verb

hydrate

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) first-person singular present indicative of hydrater
2. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) third-person singular present indicative of hydrater
3. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) first-person singular present subjunctive of hydrater
4. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) first-person singular present subjunctive of hydrater
5. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) second-person singular imperative of hydrater

Further reading

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