cation

See also: catión and cátion

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek κατιόν ‎(katión, “(thing) going down”), neuter past participle of κάτειμι ‎(káteimi, “go down”), from κατά ‎(katá, “down”) (see cata-) + εἶμι ‎(eîmi, “go”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: kătʹ-ī-ən, IPA^(key): /ˈkætˌaɪ.ən/
• (US) enPR: kătʹ-ī-ŏn, IPA^(key): /ˈkætˌaɪ.ɒn/

Noun

cation ‎(plural cations)

1. (chemistry) A positively charged ion—opposed to anion.
2. (chemistry) The ion in an electrolyzed solution that migrates to the cathode.

Derived terms

Derived terms

bication carbocation cationic cationize

dication monocation organocation polycation

supercation tetracation trication

Related terms

• anion
• ion

Translations

a positively charged ion

• Armenian: կատիոն (hy) ‎(kation)
• Basque: katioi (eu)
• Catalan: catió (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陽離子 (zh), 阳离子 (zh) ‎(yánglízi)

• Czech: kationt m
• Esperanto: katjono
• Finnish: kationi (fi)
• French: cation (fr) m
• Galician: catión m
• German: Kation (de) n
• Greek: κατιόν (el) n ‎(katión)
• Hungarian: kation (hu)
• Ido: kationo (io)
• Italian: catione (it) m

• Japanese: 陽イオン (ja) ‎(yō ion), カチオン ‎(kachion)
• Korean: 양이온 ‎(yang-ion)
• Occitan: cation m
• Persian: کاتیون (fa) ‎(kâtiyon)
• Polish: kation (pl) m
• Portuguese: (Europe) catião (pt) m, (Brazil) cátion (pt) m
• Romanian: cation (ro) m
• Russian: катио́н (ru) m ‎(katión)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: катјон m

  Roman: katjon m

• Spanish: catión (es) m
• Swedish: katjon (sv) c
• Tagalog: balipik
• Turkish: katyon (tr)

Anagrams

• action
• atonic

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /katjɔ̃/

Noun

cation m ‎(plural cations)

1. cation

Anagrams

• action, contai

External links

• “cation” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).