A salt or ester of caproic acid, a fatty acid commonly found in goat milk and coconut oil.
From caproic (related to capra, goat) plus the chemical suffix -ate, used in chemistry to name salts and esters of acids.
Caproates are important in industrial chemistry and food science, but they're named after goats because scientists first discovered these fatty acids studying goat milk centuries ago.
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