acrolein
English
noun
Definitions
- (organic compound) A pungent, acrid, poisonous liquid aldehyde, CH=CH-CH=O, made by the destructive distillation of glycerol.
Etymology
Derived from Latin acer (sharp, maple, sour, maple tree, biting, keen).
Origin
Latin
acer
Gloss
sharp, maple, sour, maple tree, biting, keen
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
鋭
Emoji
🪒
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- acryl English
- acrylamide English
- acrylic English
- bisacryl English
- disacryl English
- metacrolein English
- thioacrolein English
- *acerone Latin
- *acriāre Latin
- acer Latin
- acerabulus Latin
- aceriflorus Latin
- acerifolius Latin
- acerus Latin
- acridens Latin
- acridentatus Latin
- acrisepalus Latin
- vīnum Latin
- acryl Dutch, Flemish
- âcre French
- *h₂eḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- ácer Portuguese
- egre Old French
- acero Esperanto
- agre Catalan, Valencian
- agre Galician
- arțar Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- *akris Proto-Italic