Origin: Latin suffix -ate
Proportionate has 5 different meanings across 1 category:
To make proportionate.
"The manager decided to cut everyone's hours by a proportionate amount so that no single employee bore an unfair share of the loss."
agreeing in amount, magnitude, or degree
"The fine was deemed proportionate to the severity of his minor traffic violation."
exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities
"The city council decided that any new tax on luxury goods must be proportionate to the revenue generated by those same items."
In proportion; proportional; commensurable.
"The fine was not proportionate to the minor traffic violation she received."
This word comes from the Latin prōportiōnātus, formed by adding a suffix meaning "made into" to the root for proportion. It originally described something that had been shaped or adjusted according to its proper ratio.