aniline

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Anilin, coined by German chemist Carl Julius Fritzsche. From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Portuguese anil (“indigo”) + -in (“-ine (organic compounds)”).

Noun

aniline (countable and uncountable, plural anilines)

1. (organic chemistry) The simplest aromatic amine, C₆H₅NH₂, synthesized by the reduction of nitrobenzene; it is a colourless oily basic poisonous liquid used in the manufacture of dyes and pharmaceuticals.

Synonyms

• aminobenzene
• phenylamine

Derived terms

• anilinism
• polyaniline

Translations

the simplest aromatic amine

• Catalan: anilina f
• Czech: anilin m
• Finnish: aniliini (fi)
• French: aniline (fr) f
• German: Anilin (de) n
• Greek: ανιλίνη (el) f (anilíni)
• Hungarian: anilin (hu)
• Interlingue:
• Irish: anailín m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: anilina (it) f
• Portuguese: anilina f
• Russian: анили́н (ru) m (anilín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: анѝлӣн m

  Roman: anìlīn (sh) m

• Spanish: anilina f

Further reading

• aniline on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Noun

aniline f (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) aniline

References

• aniline on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Further reading

• “aniline”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Noun

aniline f

1. plural of anilina