Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lixiviate

/lɪkˈsɪvieɪt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: lix-ivi-ate
IPA: /lɪkˈsɪvieɪt/

19

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To separate (a substance) into soluble and insoluble components through percolation; to leach.

adj

Of or relating to lye or lixivium; of the quality of alkaline salts.

adj

Impregnated with salts from wood ashes.

noun

Example Sentences

"[…]the Slaves are out in the Storm, doing their Owners’ Laundry, observing and reading each occurrence of Blood, Semen, Excrement, Saliva, Urine, Sweat, Road-Mud, dead Skin, and other such Data of Biography, whose pure form they practice Daily, before all is lixiviated ’neath Heaven."
"but we cou'd not, by this way, discern the least acidity in our arsenical solution, but rather a manifest sign of an urinous or lixiviate quality"

Etymology

Borrowed from a Medieval Latin lixīvio, lixīviātus, or formed from the root of lixīvium, lixīvia, from lixīvius (“made into lye”), from lixa (“water, lye, ashes”).

Word Breakdown

Root: lixivio

Inflected Forms

lixiviates (present, singular) lixiviating (participle, present) lixiviated (participle, past) lixiviated (past) more lixiviate (comparative) most lixiviate (superlative) lixiviates (plural)

Derived Forms

nonlixiviated

Questions

How do you pronounce lixiviate?: The recorded pronunciation is /lɪkˈsɪvieɪt/.
What does lixiviate mean?: To separate (a substance) into soluble and insoluble components through percolation; to leach.
Where does lixiviate come from?: Borrowed from a Medieval Latin lixīvio, lixīviātus, or formed from the root of lixīvium, lixīvia, from lixīvius (“made into lye”), from lixa (“water, lye, ashes”).

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