aldehyde

See also: Aldehyde and aldéhyde

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Akkadian 𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)bor.

Aramaic כוחלא (kuḥlā)bor.

Arabic كُحْل (kuḥl)

Andalusian Arabic اَلْكُحُول (al-kuḥūl)bor.

Latin alcoholder.

Proto-Indo-European *de

Proto-Indo-European *-h₁

Proto-Indo-European *déh₁

Proto-Italic *dē

Latin dē

Latin de-der.

Proto-Indo-European *wed-

Proto-Indo-European *-r̥

Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥

Proto-Hellenic *údōr

Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ (hū̆́dōr)

Ancient Greek ῠ̔δρο- (hŭdro-)der.

German Aldehydbor.

English aldehyde

Borrowed from German Aldehyd, a contraction of the Latin al(cohol) dehyd(rogenātum).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæl.dɪ.haɪd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

aldehyde (plural aldehydes)

1. (organic chemistry) Any of a large class of reactive organic compounds (R·CHO) having a carbonyl functional group attached to one hydrocarbon radical and a hydrogen atom.
   • 2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 180:

     The air smells of strange, oceanic aldehydes.

Derived terms

• acetic aldehyde
• -al
• aldazine
• aldehyde oxidase
• aldehydic
• aldehydic acid
• aldimine
• aldol
• aminoaldehyde
• amino aldehyde
• bioaldehyde
• chinaldine
• cinnamaldehyde
• coniferyl aldehyde
• crotonaldehyde
• dialdehyde
• glutaraldehyde
• haloaldehyde
• heteroaldehyde
• isoaldehyde
• ketoaldehyde
• melon aldehyde
• monoaldehyde
• oxaldehyde
• oxoaldehyde
• perillaldehyde
• pivalaldehyde
• polyaldehyde
• selenoaldehyde
• semialdehyde
• strawberry aldehyde
• syringaldehyde
• thioaldehyde
• trialdehyde
• Zincke aldehyde

Related terms

• formaldehyde (R = H)
• acetaldehyde (R = CH₃)
• benzaldehyde (R = C₆H₅)

Translations

organic compound of the general formula R·CHO

• Catalan: aldehid (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 醛 (cyun⁴)

  Mandarin: 醛 (zh) (quán)

• Czech: aldehyd (cs) m
• Danish: aldehyd
• Dutch: aldehyde (nl) m
• Esperanto: aldehido
• Estonian: aldehüüd
• Finnish: aldehydi (fi)
• French: aldéhyde (fr) m
• German: Aldehyd (de) n
• Greek: αλδεΰδη (el) f (aldeÿ́di)
• Hungarian: aldehid (hu)
• Indonesian: aldehida (id), alkanal
• Irish: aildéad m
• Italian: aldeide (it) f
• Japanese: アルデヒド (ja) (arudehido)
• Kazakh: альдегид (aldegid)
• Khmer: អាល់ដេអ៊ីត (ʼaldeeʼiit)
• Korean: 알데하이드 (aldehaideu), 알데히드 (ko) (aldehideu)
• Māori: (w)hāparotahi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: aldehyd (no) n

  Nynorsk: aldehyd n

• Persian: آلدئید (fa) (âlde'id), آلدهید (fa) (âldehid)
• Polish: aldehyd (pl) m
• Portuguese: aldeído m
• Russian: альдеги́д (ru) m (alʹdegíd)
• Spanish: aldehído (es) m
• Swedish: aldehyd (sv) c
• Ukrainian: альдегі́д (uk) m (alʹdehíd)
• Vietnamese: anđêhit

See also

• ketone

Anagrams

• headedly

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Aldehyd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑldəˈɦidə/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: al‧de‧hy‧de

Noun

aldehyde m (plural aldehyden, no diminutive)

1. (organic chemistry) aldehyde

Related terms

• -al