molecule

See also molécule

English

Wikipedia

Diagrams showing the structure of the caffeine molecule.

Etymology

Summary: from French molécule, from New Latin molecula (“a molecule”), diminutive of Latin moles (“a mass”); see mole.

French molécule (1674, Pierre Le Gallois, Conversations tirées de l'Académie de M. l'abbé Bourdelot, contenant diverses recherches et observations physiques) cited in Quemada, Bernard (1965), Datations et documents lexicographiques (tome 3).

Medieval Latin molecula (early XVII cent., Pierre Gassendi), cited in Le Grand Robert de la Langue Française (2e édn) tome 6. ISBN 2-85036-094-5. pp. 522–23. Diminutive of moles

Noun

molecule (plural molecules or moleculæ)

1. (chemistry) The smallest particle of a specific element or compound that retains the chemical properties of that element or compound; two or more atoms held together by chemical bonds.
2. A tiny amount.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:molecule
• (small amount): see also Wikisaurus:modicum.

Meronyms

• atom

Related terms

• molecular

Translations

group of atoms held together by chemical bonds

• Afrikaans: molekuul (af)
• Albanian: molekula (sq)
• Arabic: جزيء (ar) (juzáy’) m
• Aragonese: molecula (an)
• Armenian: մոլեկուլ (hy) (molekul)
• Azeri: molekul (az)
• Basque: molekula (eu)
• Belarusian: малекула (be) (malékula) f
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: молекула (bg) (molékula) f
• Burmese: မော်လီကျူး (my) (mɔ̀ lì tʃú)
• Catalan: molècula (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 分子 (cmn) (fēnzǐ)

• Czech: molekula (cs) f
• Danish: molekyle (da) n
• Dutch: molecuul (nl) n
• Esperanto: molekulo (eo)
• Faroese: mýl (fo) n
• Finnish: molekyyli (fi)
• French: molécule (fr) f
• Galician: molécula (gl) f
• Georgian: მოლეკულა (ka) (molekula)
• German: Molekül (de) n
• Greek: μόριο (el) (mório) n
• Hebrew: מוֹלֵיקוּלָה (he)
• Hindi: अणु (hi) (aṇu), व्यूहाणु (hi) (vyūhāṇu)
• Hungarian: molekula (hu)
• Icelandic: sameind (is) f, mólekúl (is) n
• Ido: molekulo (io)
• Indonesian: molekul (id)
• Irish: móilín (ga) m
• Italian: molecola (it) f
• Japanese: 分子 (ja) (ぶんし, bunshi)
• Javanese: molekul (jv)
• Jèrriais: molétchule f
• Kashubian: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: молекула (kk) (molekwla)
• Khmer: អណូ (km) (anoo), ម៉ូលេគុល (km) (mooleekul)
• Korean: 분자 (ko) (bunja) (分子 (ko))

• Latin: molecula (la) f
• Latvian: molekula (lv) f
• Lithuanian: molekulė (lt) f
• Lower Sorbian: molekul
• Macedonian: молекула (mk) (molekula)
• Malagasy: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: molekul (ms)
• Malayalam: തന്മാത്ര (ml)
• Manx: co-vreneen (gv) m
• Marathi: please add this translation if you can
• Newari: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: molekyl (no) n
• Norwegian Nynorsk: molekyl (nn) n
• Novial: molekule
• Occitan: molecula (oc)
• Ossetian: молекулæ
• Persian: مولکول (fa) (molekul)
• Polish: cząsteczka (pl) f, molekuła (pl) f
• Portuguese: molécula (pt) f
• Romanian: moleculă (ro) f
• Russian: молекула (ru) (molékula) f
• Serbo-Croatian: molekula (sh) f
• Slovak: molekula (sk)
• Slovene: molekula (sl)
• Spanish: molécula (es) f
• Sundanese: molekul (su)
• Swahili: molekuli (sw)
• Swedish: molekyl (sv) c
• Tagalog: molekula (tl)
• Tajik: please add this translation if you can
• Tamil: மூலக்கூறு (ta) (mūlakkūṟu)
• Tatar: молекула (tt) (molekula)
• Telugu: అణువు (te) (aNuvu)
• Thai: โมเลกุล (th) (moh-lay-gun)
• Turkish: molekül (tr)
• Ukrainian: молекула (uk) (molékula) f
• Upper Sorbian: molekul (hsb)
• Uyghur: مولېكۇلا (ug) (molëkula)
• Uzbek: molekula (uz)
• Vietnamese: phân tử (vi)
• Waray-Waray: molekula