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saturat

saturated /sa.tuˈrat/

adjective#5542 most common

Also: full, sated (figurative: fed up with something), saturated (of color, intensely vivid), saturated (of a market, unable to absorb more supply)

Example sentences

Untul are grăsimi saturate.
Butter has saturated fats.
Aerul din cameră este saturat de fum.
The air in the room is saturated with smoke.
Piața telefoanelor mobile pare complet saturată.
The mobile phone market seems completely saturated.
Fotograful a ales culori intens saturate pentru afiș.
The photographer chose intensely saturated colors for the poster.
Solul, saturat de apă după ploile abundente, nu mai putea absorbi lichidul.
The soil, saturated with water after the heavy rains, could no longer absorb the liquid.
Sunt saturat de discuțiile politice sterile care domină spațiul public.
I am sick of the sterile political discussions that dominate public life.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativesaturat (m) / saturată (f)saturați (m) / saturate (f)
Genitivesaturat (m) / saturate (f)saturați (m) / saturate (f)
Accusativesaturat (m) / saturată (f)saturați (m) / saturate (f)
Vocativesaturat (m) / saturată (f)saturați (m) / saturate (f)

Word family

a saturato saturate, to fill completely
saturațiesaturation (chemistry, color, market)
nesaturatunsaturated
suprasaturatsupersaturated
săturatfull, having eaten enough (related but distinct everyday word)

Etymology

Saturat is a learned borrowing from French saturé and Latin saturatus, the past participle of saturare, meaning to fill or satiate. That verb comes from the adjective satur, full, which is related to Latin satis, enough. Romanian took the word into its scientific and technical vocabulary in the 19th century, alongside the inherited popular verb a se sătura and its participle săturat, which developed by ordinary sound change from the same Latin root and covers the everyday sense of eating one's fill.

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