aromatic

English

Alternative forms

• aromatick (obsolete)
• aromatique (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French aromatique, from Ancient Greek ἄρωμα (arōma, “seasoning, spicy and/or fragrant smell”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /æ.ɹəˈmæt.ɪk/, X-SAMPA: /{.r\@"m{t.Ik/

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• Rhymes: -ætɪk

Adjective

aromatic (comparative more aromatic, superlative most aromatic)

1. Fragrant or spicy.
2. (organic chemistry) Having a closed ring of alternate single and double bonds with delocalized electrons.
3. (organic chemistry) derived from benzene.

Antonyms

• (organic chemistry): aliphatic

Translations

fragrant or spicy

• Bulgarian: ароматен (bg) (aromáten), благоуханен (bg) (blagouhánen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 芳香 (cmn) (fāngxiāng), 芬芳 (cmn) (fēnfāng), 芬香 (cmn) (fēnxiāng)

• Dutch: aromatisch (nl), geurig (nl), kruidig (nl)
• Finnish: aromikas (fi)
• French: aromatique (fr), odorant (fr)
• German: aromatisch (de), würzig (de), duftend (de)
• Greek: αρωματικός (el) (aromatikós) m, ευωδιαστός (el) (evodiastós) m

• Hungarian: aromás (hu)
• Japanese: 香りのよい (ja) (かおりのよい, kaori no yoi), 香ばしい (ja) (こうばしい, kōbashii), 芳しい (ja) (かんばしい, kanbashii)
• Portuguese: aromático (pt), fragrante (pt)
• Russian: ароматный (ru) (aromátnyj), благоуханный (ru) (blagouxánnyj), благовонный (ru) (blagovónnyj), душистый (ru) (dušístyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: mirišljav (sh), aromatičan (sh), mirisan (sh)
• Spanish: aromático (es)

in organic chemistry

• Bulgarian: ароматен (bg) (aromaten)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 芳香族 (cmn) (fāngxiāngzú)

• Finnish: aromaattinen (fi)
• French: aromatique (fr)
• German: aromatisch (de)

• Japanese: 芳香族の (ja) (ほうこうぞくの, hōkōzoku no)
• Portuguese: aromático (pt)
• Romanian: aromatic (ro)
• Russian: ароматический (ru) (aromatíčeskij)
• Spanish: aromático (es)
• Turkish: aromatik (tr)

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• Sindhi: سُرَهو (sd), خوشبودار (sd)

Noun

aromatic (plural aromatics)

1. A fragrant plant or spice added to a dish to flavour it.

Translations

fragrant plant or spice added to flavour a dish

• Bulgarian: подправка (bg) (podpravka)

• Dutch: aromaat

Anagrams

• macrotia