Origin: Latin suffix -ate
Oblate has 5 different meanings across 2 categories:
a lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life
A person dedicated to a life of religion or monasticism, especially a member of an order without religious vows or a lay member of a religious community.
To offer as either a gift or an oblation.
having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles
Flattened or depressed at the poles.