ნიტრატი • (nitrati)=nitrate=νιτρικό, νιτρικό άλας

ნიტრატი • (nitrati)=nitrate=νιτρικό, νιτρικό άλας

ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY

nitrate (n.) Look up nitrate at Dictionary.com
1794, from French nitrate (1787) or formed in English from nitre + -ate (3). Related: Nitrates.

nitre (n.) Look up nitre at Dictionary.com
c.1400, "native sodium carbonate," from Old French nitre (13c.), from Latin nitrum, from Greek nitron, which is possibly of Eastern origin (cf. Hebrew nether "carbonate of soda;" Egyptian ntr). Originally a word for native soda, but also associated from Middle Ages with saltpeter (potassium nitrate) for obscure reasons; this became the predominant sense by late 16c.