ar-

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ar"

English

Etymology 1

Extracted from the word aromatic.

Prefix

ar-

1. (organic chemistry) Forming classification names for classes of organic compounds that contain a carbon skeleton and one or more aromatic rings.
   • 1900, Edgar Fahs Smith (English translator), R. Anschütz (German editor), Victor von Richter's Organic Chemistry: or, Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds, Third American Edition, Volume II, P. Blakiston's Son & Co., page 393:

     Potassium permanganate oxidizes ac-tetrahydronaphtylamine to o-hydrocinnam-carboxylic acid (p. 245); ar-tetrahydronaphthylamine, however, because of the oxidation of its amided benzene nucleus, is changed to adipic acid together with oxalic acid (B. 22, 767): […]

   • 1919 January 10, C. J. West, abstract of G. Schroeter and K. Thomas, “Transformation of tetrahydronaphthalene (tetralin) in the animal body”; in American Chemical Society, Chemical Abstracts, Volume 13, Number 1, page 43:

     ar-Tetrahydro-α-carbamidonaphthalene, C₁₁H₁₄ON₂, crystallized in square plates from alc., soften at 198° and melts at about 206° (quickly heated, at 212°).

   • 2006, Amit Arora, Aromatic Organic Chemistry, Discovery Publishing House (2007), →ISBN, page 173:

     1-Naphthylamine is reduced by sodium and isopentanol to ar-tetrahydro-1-naphthylamine; the prefix ar- is the abbreviation of aromatic and indicates that the four hydrogen atoms are not in the ring containing the amino-group: […]

Etymology 2

Shortened from area (because the function describes the area under a hyperbola), by analogy with arc-, the corresponding prefix for the circular trigonomic functions.

Prefix

ar-

1. (mathematics, trigonometry) Used to form the names of inverse hyperbolic trigonometric functions, and the symbols for these functions.

   Synonyms: (sometimes proscribed) arc-, a-, ⁻¹

References

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Anagrams

• RA, Ra

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Prefix

ar-

1. prefix for limbs or upright things

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ɸare-. Prefix form of ar (“in front of”).

Prefix

ar-

1. for-, fore-

Derived terms

Old Irish words prefixed with ar-

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Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *ar-, from Proto-Celtic *ɸare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ar/

Prefix

ar-

1. on, above, sur-, super-, epi-

   ‎ar- + ‎nofio (“to swim”) → ‎arnofio (“to float”)

   ‎ar- + ‎ysgrif (“writing”) → ‎arysgrif (“inscription, epigraph”)

2. near

   ‎ar- + ‎lliw (“colour”) → ‎arlliw (“shade”)

   ‎ar- + ‎môr (“sea”) → ‎arfor (“coast”)

Derived terms

Welsh words prefixed with ar-

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	h-prothesis
ar-	unchanged	unchanged	har-
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “ar-”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies