I think not. Many verbs end in "ate" for reasons that are merely historical. These words come from Latin verbs that have certain endings having no particular relation to their meaning (other than to show that they are verbs). For example, "create" comes from Latin "creare" and the "are" has somehow transformed over time into "ate".

-ate is a morpheme, specifically a suffix, in that it indicates that the attached word is a verb and denotes a certain meaning - as a verb it generally means 'to make so'. For example to activate means to make activate.

Jonathan explained it nicely. The suffix 'ion' is an example that could change the verbs 'create' and 'educate' into nouns, i.e., 'creation' and 'education.' Derivational suffixes have several functions. The suffix - 'ate' can create nouns, adjectives and verbs. certify|noun|certificate|noun hyphen|noun|hyphenate|verb fortune|noun|fortunate|adj