Rate

Morpheme

Rate

Type

free base

Denotation

price, value, worth, judgment, estimation, calculation

Etymology

Old French rate and Medieval Latin rata; Latin rata, from reri

Evidence

birthrate, bitrate, buyrate, countrate, derate, disrate, downrate, eigenrate, fallrate, fillrate, flowrate, hashrate, irrational, misrate, multirate, nonratifiable, nonratifying, outrate, overrate, overrated, proratable, prorate, prorated, prorater, prorates, prorating, proration, rata, ratability, ratable, rate, rateable, ratebuster, rated, ratee, rateless, ratemaker, ratemaking, ratemeter, ratepayer, ratepaying, rates, ratifiable, ratification, ratified, ratifier, ratifies, ratify, ratifying, ratihabition, rating, ratio, ratioed, ratioing, ratioless, ratiometer, ratiometric, ratiometry, ration, rational, rationes, ratios, rerate, runrate, subratio, transrate, underrated, unrate, unratifiable, uprate, winrate, workrate

Notes

ration, ratio, and reason are doublets

See Also

Reason

Homographs

Rate