anion

See also: Anion, anión, aníon, and ânion

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀνιόν (anión, “(thing) going up”), neuter past participle of ἄνειμι (áneimi, “go up”), from ἀνά (aná, “up”) (see ana-) + εἶμι (eîmi, “go”). Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1834 for Michael Faraday, who introduced it later that year.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ăn'-ī-ŏn IPA^(key): /ˈæn.aɪ.ɑn/
• IPA^(key): /ˈæn.aɪ.ɒn/

Noun

anion (plural anions)

1. A negatively charged ion.

Derived terms

• anion gap
• anionic
• anionization
• carbanion
• counteranion
• dianion
• high anion gap metabolic acidosis
• interanion
• monoanion
• oxoanion
• oxyanion
• polyanion
• radical anion
• superanion

 

Related terms

• cation

Translations

negatively charged ion

• Armenian: անիոն (hy) (anion)
• Catalan: anió (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陰離子／阴离子 (zh) (yīnlízǐ), 阴离子 (zh) (yīnlízǐ)

• Czech: aniont m
• Dutch: anion (nl) n
• Esperanto: anjono
• Finnish: anioni (fi)
• French: anion (fr) m
• Galician: anión m
• German: Anion (de) n
• Greek: ανιόν (el) n (anión)
• Ido: aniono (io)
• Irish: ainian m
• Italian: anione (it) m
• Japanese: 陰イオン (ja) (in-ion), アニオン (ja) (anion)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Kabuverdianu:

  ALUPEC: anioni

  São Vicente: anione

• Korean: 음이온 (eumion)
• Occitan: anion m
• Polish: anion (pl) m
• Portuguese: ânion (pt) m (Brazil), anião (pt) m (Portugal), aníon (pt) m, anionte m
• Russian: анио́н (ru) m (anión)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} анјон m, ^{(please verify)} анион m

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} anjon m, ^{(please verify)} anion (sh) m

• Spanish: anión (es) m
• Swedish: anjon (sv) c
• Tagalog: tahapik
• Turkish: anyon (tr)

Further reading

• Ion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• NAION

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French

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

anion m (plural anions)

1. anion

Further reading

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

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): //ˈaɲ.jɔn//

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

anion m inan

1. anion

Declension

Declension of anion

	singular	plural
nominative	anion	aniony
genitive	anionu	anionów
dative	anionowi	anionom
accusative	anion	aniony
instrumental	anionem	anionami
locative	anionie	anionach
vocative	anionie	aniony

Further reading

• Template:R:PWN

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

anion m (Cyrillic spelling анион)

1. anion