diode

See also: Diode and díode

English

Etymology

From di- (“two”) +‎ -ode. Learned formation, coined by William Henry Eccles in 1919, after Ancient Greek δίοδος (díodos, “passage through”), which however is formed not with δι- (di-, “two”) but with δια- (dia-, “through”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪ.əʊd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪ.oʊd/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪəʊd

Noun

diode (plural diodes)

1. (electronics) An electronic device that allows current to flow in one direction only; used chiefly as a rectifier.
   • 1919 April 18, William Eccles, Electrician, page 475:

     I propose to give the name diode to a tube with two electrodes.

   • 1949, Samuel Silver, Microwave Antenna Theory and Design‎^[1], page 593:

     If a crystal or a diode is used, the amplifier-voltmeter combination may be used with an amplitude-modulated source; or with a c-w source, the detector may be connected to a microammeter or galvanometer as an indicating device.

   • 2005, Robert Diffenderfer, Electronic Devices: Systems and Applications‎^[2], page 69:

     In this circuit when the diode is forward biased, the voltage across the diode remains fairly close to the diode's barrier potential.

Coordinate terms

• bias
• capacitor
• conductor
• drain
• emitter
• inductor
• insulator
• memristor
• resistor
• source
• transistor

Derived terms

• diodelaser
• diodelike
• diodic
• Gunn diode
• junction diode
• laser diode
• light-emitting diode, LED
• microdiode
• nanodiode
• photodiode
• Schottky diode
• tunnel diode
• Zener diode

Related terms

• anode
• cathode
• electrode
• heptode
• hexode
• nonode
• octode
• pentode
• tetrode
• triode

Descendants

• → French: diode (see there for further descendants)
• → Korean: 다이오드 (daiodeu)
• → Spanish: diodo
  • → Basque: diodo
• → Welsh: deuod

Translations

electronic device

• Arabic: صِمَام ثُنَائِيّ m (ṣimām ṯunāʔiyy), ثَنَائِي دِيُود m (ṯanāʔī diyūd)
• Armenian: դիոդ (hy) (diod)
• Basque: diodo (eu)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: díode (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 二極管 / 二极管 (zh) (èrjíguǎn), 二極體 / 二极体 (zh) (èrjítǐ)

• Czech: dioda (cs) f
• Danish: diode (da) c
• Dutch: diode (nl) f
• Esperanto: diodo (eo)
• Finnish: diodi (fi)
• French: diode (fr) f
• Galician: díodo (gl) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Diode (de) f
• Greek: δίοδος (el) m (díodos)
• Hebrew: דיודה (he) f (dioda)
• Hindi: डायोड (hi) (ḍāyoḍ)
• Hungarian: dióda (hu)
• Icelandic: díóða f, tvistur m, tvískauta rör n, tvískauti m
• Indonesian: diode (id)
• Italian: diodo (it) m
• Japanese: ダイオード (ja) (daiōdo)
• Korean: 다이오드 (ko) (daiodeu)
• Macedonian: дио́да (mk) f (dióda)
• Malay: diod (ms)
• Māori: ngōhiko, whāhutahi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: diode (no) m

  Nynorsk: diode m

• Persian: دیود (fa) (diyod)
• Polish: dioda (pl) f
• Portuguese: díodo m
• Romanian: diodă (ro) f
• Russian: дио́д (ru) m (diód)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дио́да f

  Latin: dióda (sh) f

• Spanish: diodo (es) m
• Swedish: diod (sv) c
• Tagalog: duhandas, diyodo
• Thai: ไดโอด (daiòht)
• Turkish: diyot (tr)
• Vietnamese: ống hai cực, bóng lưỡng cực, đèn lưỡng cực, điôt
• Welsh: deuod m

Anagrams

• Dodie, Edoid

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English diode.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d̥iˈoːðə/

Noun

diode c (singular definite dioden, plural indefinite dioder)

1. (electronics) diode

Declension

Declension of diode

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	diode	dioden	dioder	dioderne
genitive	diodes	diodens	dioders	diodernes

See also

• pn-overgang (“p-n junction”)
• lederretning (“direction of forward bias”)
• spærreretning (“direction of reverse bias”)

Further reading

• “diode” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English diode.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diˈjoːdə/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: di‧o‧de

Noun

diode f (plural dioden or diodes, diminutive diodetje n)

1. (electronics) diode

Further reading

• “diode” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
• Matthias de Vries; Lambert Allard te Winkel (1864), “diode”, in Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, published 2001

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English diode.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /djɔd/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio (France):

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Noun

diode f (plural diodes)

1. (electronics) diode

Descendants

• → Turkish: diyot

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch diode, from English diode.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diˈodə/
• Hyphenation: di‧o‧dê
• Rhymes: -də, -ə

Noun

diodê (plural diode-diode)

1. (electronics) diode

Alternative forms

• diod (Standard Malay)
• dioda

Derived terms

• diode elektronika

Further reading

• “diode”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English diode.

Noun

diode m (definite singular dioden, indefinite plural dioder, definite plural diodene)

1. (electronics) diode

Further reading

• “diode” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English diode.

Noun

diode m (definite singular dioden, indefinite plural diodar, definite plural diodane)

1. (electronics) diode

Further reading

• “diode” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.