acetone

See also: acétone

English

Etymology

From acet- from acētum (“vinegar”). The -one was taken from margarone but further etymology is unclear. Doublet of ketone.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæ.sə.toʊn/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

acetone (countable and uncountable, plural acetones)

2. (organic chemistry) A colourless, volatile, flammable liquid ketone, (CH₃)₂CO, used as a solvent.

   Synonyms: propanone, propan-2-one, dimethyl ketone

   • 2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 81:

     You open the salon door and the acetone from yesterday’s manicures immediately stings my nostrils.

Derived terms

• acetonaemia
• acetonemia
• acetone oil
• acetone peroxide
• acetonic
• acetonide
• acetonuria
• acetonyl
• acetylacetone
• aminoacetone
• benzylideneacetone
• bromoacetone
• chloroacetone
• diacetone
• hexabromoacetone
• hexachloroacetone
• hexafluoroacetone
• iodoacetone
• isopropylacetone
• metacetone
• monoacetone
• phenoxyacetone
• phenylacetone
• succinylacetone
• thioacetone
• triacetone
• trithioacetone
• vanillylacetone

Translations

the organic compound (CH₃)₂CO

• Arabic: أَسِيتُون m (ʔasitūn)
• Asturian: acetona f
• Belarusian: ацэто́н m (acetón)
• Bulgarian: ацето́н (bg) m (acetón)
• Catalan: acetona f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 丙酮 (bing² tung⁴), 醋酮 (cou³ tung⁴)

  Mandarin: 丙酮 (zh) (bǐngtóng), 醋酮 (cùtóng)

• Czech: aceton (cs) m
• Danish: acetone c
• Dutch: aceton (nl) m or n
• Esperanto: acetono
• Finnish: asetoni (fi)
• French: acétone (fr) f
• Galician: acetona (gl) f
• German: Aceton (de) n, Azeton (de) n, Propanon (de) n, Dimethylketon (de) n
• Greek: ακετόνη (el) n (aketóni)
• Hebrew: אצטון (he) m (atsetón)
• Hindi: शुक्ता (hi) ? (śuktā)
• Hungarian: aceton (hu)
• Icelandic: asetón n
• Indonesian: aseton (id)
• Irish: aicéatón m
• Italian: acetone (it) m
• Japanese: アセトン (ja) (aseton)
• Khmer: អាសេតូន (ʼaaseetoun)
• Korean: 아세톤 (ko) (aseton)
• Latvian: acetons m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: aceton (no) n

  Nynorsk: aceton n

• Persian: استون (fa) (asetôn)
• Polish: aceton (pl) m
• Portuguese: acetona (pt) f
• Romanian: acetonă (ro) f
• Russian: ацето́н (ru) m (acetón)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ацѐто̄н m

  Latin: acètōn (sh) m

• Slovene: acetón (sl) m
• Spanish: acetona (es) f
• Swedish: aceton (sv) c or n
• Tagalog: asetona
• Thai: แอซีโทน (ae-si-thon)
• Turkish: aseton (tr)
• Ukrainian: ацето́н (uk) m (acetón)
• Vietnamese: axeton

References

• acetone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “acetone”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• enoteca

Danish

Etymology

From Latin acētum (“vinegar”) + -one.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /asətoːnə/, [asəˈtˢoːnə]

Noun

acetone c (singular definite acetonen, not used in plural form)

1. (organic chemistry) acetone (a colourless, volatile, flammable liquid ketone, (CH₃)₂CO, used as a solvent)

Further reading

• acetone on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• “acetone” in Den Danske Ordbog

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French acétone f.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -one

• IPA^(key): /a.t͡ʃeˈto.ne/
• Rhymes: -one
• Hyphenation: a‧ce‧tó‧ne

Noun

acetone m (plural acetoni)

1. (organic chemistry) acetone (a colourless, volatile, flammable liquid ketone, (CH₃)₂CO, used as a solvent)
2. (colloquial) nail polish remover
3. (medicine, colloquial, sometimes proscribed) synonym of acetonemia or acetonuria

   avere l'acetone ― to be in ketosis (literally, “to have the acetone”)

Further reading

• acetone in Treccani.it – Enciclopedia Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• Chetoacidosi on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Anagrams

• enoteca