verb transitiveWord forms: ˈcamphorˌated or ˈcamphorˌating
1.
to put camphor in or on
noun
2.
a salt derived from camphor
camphorate in American English
(ˈkæmfəˌreit)
transitive verbWord forms: -ated, -ating
to impregnate with camphor
Word origin
[1635–45; ‹ ML camphorātus, equiv. to camphor(a) camphor + -ātus-ate1]This word is first recorded in the period 1635–45. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: coordinate, focus, intaglio, recruit, sympathetic-ate is a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, its English distribution parallelingthat of Latin. The form originated as a suffix added to a- stem verbs to form adjectives (separate). The resulting form could also be used independently as a noun (advocate) and came to be used as a stem on which a verb could be formed (separate; advocate; agitate). In English the use as a verbal suffix has been extended to stems of non-Latin origin(calibrate; acierate)