chloroform

See also: Chloroform

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French chloroforme, portmanteau of terchloride (tertiary chloride, trichloride) and formyle (CH, an obsolete radical of formic acid) by Jean-Baptiste Dumas, from 1834. By surface analysis, chloro- +‎ -form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklɒɹə(ʊ)ˌfɔː(ɹ)m/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: chlo‧ro‧form
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)m

Noun

chloroform (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) A halogenated hydrocarbon, trichloromethane, CHCl₃; it is a volatile, sweet-smelling liquid, used extensively as a solvent and formerly as an anesthetic.

   Synonyms: trichloromethane; Guthrie's sweet whiskey, sweet whiskey (archaic)

   Hypernyms: haloform < trihalomethane < substance, compound, material

   Coordinate terms: fluoroform, trifluoromethane (CHF₃), bromoform, tribromomethane (CHBr₃), iodoform, triiodomethane (CHI₃)

   Some assume that chloroform is a gas because it was given by inhalation.

Derived terms

• chlorodyne
• chloroformer
• chloroformism
• chloroformist
• chloroformize
• deuterochloroform
• methylchloroform
• methyl chloroform
• nitrochloroform
• prechloroform

Translations

(chemistry) an anesthetic

• Afrikaans: chloroform (af)
• Arabic: كْلُورُوفُورْم m (klurufūrm)
• Basque: kloroformo
• Bulgarian: хлороформ (bg) (hloroform)
• Catalan: cloroform (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 氯仿 (luk⁶ fong²)

  Mandarin: 氯仿 (zh) (lǜfǎng), 哥羅仿 / 哥罗仿 (zh) (gēluófǎng)

• Czech: chloroform m
• Danish: kloroform c
• Dutch: chloroform (nl)
• Esperanto: kloroformo
• Finnish: kloroformi (fi)
• French: chloroforme (fr) m
• Galician: cloroformo (gl)
• German: Chloroform (de) n
• Greek: χλωροφόρμιο (el) m (chlorofórmio)
• Hindi: क्लोरोफार्म (hi) m (klorophārm)
• Hungarian: kloroform (hu)
• Icelandic: klóróform n
• Italian: cloroformio (it) m
• Japanese: クロロホルム (ja) (kurorohorumu)
• Korean: 클로로포름 (keulloroporeum)
• Latin: chloroformium chloroformum
• Māori: kororohama
• Polish: chloroform (pl) m
• Portuguese: clorofórmio (pt) m
• Romanian: cloroform (ro) n
• Russian: хлорофо́рм (ru) m (xlorofórm)
• Scots: chloroform
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кло̏роформ m, хло̏роформ m

  Latin: klȍroform (sh) m, hloroform m

• Slovene: klorofórm m
• Spanish: cloroformo (es) m
• Swedish: kloroform (sv) c
• Tagalog: kloropormo
• Thai: คลอโรฟอร์ม (th) (klɔɔ-roo-fɔɔm)
• Turkish: kloroform (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: قلوروفورم

• Ukrainian: хлорофо́рм m (xlorofórm)

Verb

chloroform (third-person singular simple present chloroforms, present participle chloroforming, simple past and past participle chloroformed)

1. (transitive) To treat, or to render unconscious, with chloroform.
   • 1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:

     Geoffrey was first chloroformed, I think. The hand that picked Nipper up to dispose of him had certainly touched chloroform just before. Drugged; does that bring us nearer by taking us further away, I wonder?

Derived terms

• unchloroformed

Related terms

• methylene chloride
• carbon tetrachloride
• fluoroform
• bromoform
• iodoform

Translations

to treat with chloroform, or to render unconscious with chloroform

• Finnish: nukuttaa kloloformilla, tainnuttaa kloloformilla
• French: chloroformer (fr)
• Galician: cloroformizar (gl)
• Hungarian: kloroformoz, kloroformmal elaltat
• Italian: cloroformizzare (it)
• Polish: chloroformować impf
• Spanish: cloroformizar (es)

Afrikaans

Noun

chloroform (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) chloroform

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈxloroform]
• Hyphenation: chlo‧ro‧form

Noun

chloroform m inan

1. (organic chemistry) chloroform

Declension

Declension of chloroform (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	chloroform	chloroformy
genitive	chloroformu	chloroformů
dative	chloroformu	chloroformům
accusative	chloroform	chloroformy
vocative	chloroforme	chloroformy
locative	chloroformu	chloroformech
instrumental	chloroformem	chloroformy

References

• “chloroform”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “chloroform”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “chloroform”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: chlo‧ro‧form

Noun

chloroform m (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. (organic chemistry) chloroform

Further reading

• “chloroform” in Van Dale Onlinewoordenboek, Van Dale Lexicografie, 2007.

Polish

Etymology

Internationalism; compare English chloroform, French chloroforme, German Chloroform.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xlɔˈrɔ.fɔrm/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔfɔrm
• Syllabification: chlo‧ro‧form

Noun

chloroform m inan (related adjective chloroformowy)

1. (organic chemistry) chloroform

Declension

Declension of chloroform

	singular
nominative	chloroform
genitive	chloroformu
dative	chloroformowi
accusative	chloroform
instrumental	chloroformem
locative	chloroformie
vocative	chloroformie

Derived terms

verb

• chloroformować impf

Further reading

• “chloroform”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “chloroform”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Scots

Noun

chloroform (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) chloroform
   • 1935, Joe Corrie, chapter 7, in The Income:

     Afore I kent where I was I got a smeek o' chloroform.

     Before I knew where I was I got a puff of chloroform.

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xlɔrɔfɔrm/, [ˈxlɔrɔfɔrm]
• Rhymes: -ɔfɔrm
• Hyphenation: chlo‧ro‧form

Noun

chloroform m inan (relational adjective chloroformový)

1. (organic chemistry) chloroform

   Synonym: trichlórmetán

Declension

Declension of chloroform
(pattern dub)

	singular	plural
nominative	chloroform	chloroformy
genitive	chloroformu	chloroformov
dative	chloroformu	chloroformom
accusative	chloroform	chloroformy
locative	chloroforme	chloroformoch
instrumental	chloroformom	chloroformami

Further reading

• “chloroform”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026