Word Structure

WordHub has a local lexical record for “Sulfatase” with pronunciation and root analysis.

• sulf

  sulfur

  Forms: sulf, sulph

• -ate

  forms adjectives and nouns, denoting a state, office, function, or a quality, characteristic; also forms verbs from nouns and adjectives, to do, to make, to cause -ati: a group or class of people

  Forms: ate

• -ase

  suffix used in naming enzymes

  Forms: ase