ate in French

(obsolete) formed, up until Early Modern English (later seldom used but archaically, in poetry, or in religious writings), regular past participles of verbs ending in -ate, alternatively used alongside -ated from as early as Middle English

(rare) forms nouns meaning "person or thing that is either the object of a performed transitive verb or the subject of an intransitive one"

(chemistry) forms derivatives of specified elements or compounds; especially salts or esters of an acid whose name ends in -ic

forms nouns denoting a social or political system ruled by people or someone of a certain rank or office