ethanol

See also: Ethanol and éthanol

English

Etymology

Contracted from ethyl + alcohol. Ethyl is from Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr, “ether”), influenced by German Äthyl. May be decomposed as ethane +‎ -ol.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛθ.ə.nɒl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛθ.ə.nɑl/

• Audio (General American):

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Noun

ethanol (usually uncountable, plural ethanols)

2. (organic chemistry) A simple aliphatic alcohol formally derived from ethane by replacing one hydrogen atom with a hydroxyl group: CH₃-CH₂-OH.
   • 2012 September 26, Jacque Wilson, “Experts: Alcohol enemas ‘extremely dangerous’”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Our stomachs and livers have an enzyme known as alcohol dehydrogenase that breaks down ethanol to make it less toxic for our bodies, said Atlanta gastroenterologist Dr. Preston Stewart.

3. Specifically, this form of alcohol as a fuel.
   • 2010 January 26, Ted Strickland, Ohio State of the State Address, 05:25–39:

     In 2007, not one drop of ethanol was produced in Ohio. Today, four ethanol facilities in Ohio are producing two hundred and ninety-five million gallons annually.

Synonyms

• (simple aliphatic alcohol): alcohol, ethyl alcohol, ethyl hydrate, ethyl hydroxide, ethylol, EtOH, monohydroxyethane, grain alcohol, methylcarbinol, E1510 (when used as a food additive)

Hyponyms

• (simple aliphatic alcohol): NGS (“neutral grain spirit”), GNS (“grain neutral spirit”), GS (“grain spirit”), NS (“neutral spirit”), rectified spirit, neutral alcohol; (high-test ethanol solution, usually with distilled/deionized water) (especially food-grade ones)

Derived terms

• bioethanol
• bromoethanol
• ethanolamine
• ethanolemia
• ethanolic
• ethanologenic
• ethanolysis
• mercaptoethanol
• nonethanol
• phenoxyethanol
• radioethanol
• tribromoethanol
• triethanolamine

Translations

simple aliphatic alcohol: CH₃-CH₂-OH

• Afrikaans: etanol (af)
• Arabic: إِيثَانُول m (ʔiṯānūl)
• Bulgarian: етано́л m (etanól)
• Catalan: etanol (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 乙醇 (jyut⁶ seon⁴)

  Mandarin: 乙醇 (zh) (yǐchún)

• Czech: etanol (cs) m, ethanol m, ethylalkohol m
• Danish: ætanol c, ethanol (da) c
• Esperanto: etanolo
• Finnish: etanoli (fi)
• French: éthanol (fr) m
• German: Ethanol (de) n, Äthanol (de) n
• Greek: αιθανόλη (el) f (aithanóli), αιθυλική αλκοόλη f (aithylikí alkoóli), οινόπνευμα (el) n (oinópnevma)
• Hebrew: אֶתָנוֹל (he) m (etanól)
• Hindi: दक्षिन्यव (dakṣinyav)
• Hungarian: etanol (hu)
• Ido: etanolo
• Indonesian: etanol (id)
• Italian: etanolo (it) m
• Japanese: エタノール (ja) (etanōru)
• Korean: 에타놀 (etanol)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: etanol (no) m

  Nynorsk: etanol m

• Persian: اتانول (fa) (etânol)
• Polish: alkohol etylowy (pl) m, etanol (pl) m
• Portuguese: etanol (pt) m, álcool etílico (pt) m
• Russian: этано́л (ru) m (etanól)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: етанол m

  Roman: etanol (sh) m

• Spanish: etanol (es) m
• Swedish: etanol (sv) c
• Thai: เอทานอล, เอทิลแอลกอฮอล์
• Turkish: etanol (tr)
• Ukrainian: етано́л m (etanól), ви́нний спирт m (výnnyj spyrt), ети́ловий спирт m (etýlovyj spyrt)
• Urdu: دکشنیو (dakṣinyav)
• Vietnamese: cồn (vi), rượu ethylic

Anagrams

• Athlone, anethol, anthole, loaneth

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛdɦanol]

Noun

ethanol m inan

1. ethanol (simple aliphatic alcohol: CH3-CH2-OH)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Dutch

Etymology

From ethaan +‎ -ol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eːtaːˈnɔl/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: etha‧nol
• Rhymes: -ɔl

Noun

ethanol n (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. (organic chemistry) ethanol

Descendants

• → Indonesian: etanol

Indonesian

Noun

ethanol (plural ethanol-ethanol)

1. (chemistry, nonstandard) alternative spelling of etanol (“ethanol”)