cation

See also: catión and cátion

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κᾰτῐόν (kătĭón), neuter present participle of κᾰ́τειμῐ (kắteimĭ, “to go down, come down”), from κᾰτᾰ- (kătă-, “downwards, down, cata-”) +‎ εἶμῐ (eîmĭ, “to go, come”). Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1834 for Michael Faraday, who introduced it later that year. By surface analysis, cat(a)- +‎ ion.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kătʹ-ī-ən
• IPA^(key): /ˈkætˌaɪ.ən/, /ˈkætˌaɪ.ɑn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

cation (plural cations)

1. (physical chemistry) A positively charged ion: one that would be attracted to the cathode in electrolysis.

   Antonym: anion

   Hypernym: ion

Derived terms

• bication
• borocation
• carbocation
• cation exchange
• cationic
• cationization
• cationize
• cationoid
• cationotropic
• cationotropy
• cation-π
• countercation
• dication
• hexacation
• monocation
• organocation
• pentacation
• polycation
• radical cation
• supercation
• tetracation
• trication

Translations

Translations

• Armenian: կատիոն (hy) (kation)
• Basque: katioi (eu)
• Belarusian: катыён m (katyjón)
• Bengali: ধনাত্মক আয়ন (dhonattok aẏon)
• Bulgarian: катион m (kation)
• Catalan: catió (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 陽離子 / 阳离子 (zh) (yánglízi), 正離子 / 正离子 (zh) (zhènglízǐ)

• Czech: kationt m
• Dutch: kation (nl) n
• 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 (ja) (kachion)
• Khmer: កាចុង (km) (kaacong)
• Korean: 양이온 (yang'ion)
• Occitan: cation m
• Persian: کاتیون (fa) (kâtiyon)
• Polish: kation (pl) m
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian: cátion (pt) m

  European: catião (pt) m

• Romanian: cation (ro) m
• Russian: катио́н (ru) m (katión)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: катјон m

  Roman: katjon m

• Slovene: kation (sl) m
• Spanish: catión (es) m
• Swedish: katjon (sv) c
• Tagalog: balipik
• Turkish: katyon (tr)
• Ukrainian: катіо́н m (katión)

References

• “cation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• cation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “cation”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “cation”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• Catino, actino-, action, atonic

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.tjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

cation m (plural cations)

1. cation

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• action, contai

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cation.

Noun

cation m (plural cationi)

1. cation

Declension

Declension of cation

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	cation	cationul		cationi	cationii
genitive-dative	cation	cationului		cationi	cationilor
vocative	cationule			cationilor

Related terms

• cationic