etileno

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

French éthyl

French -ène

French éthylènebor.

Portuguese etileno

Borrowed from French éthylène.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /e.t͡ʃiˈlẽ.nu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /e.t͡ʃiˈlẽ.nu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /e.t͡ʃiˈle.no/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɛ.tiˈle.nu/, /e.tiˈle.nu/

• Hyphenation: e‧ti‧le‧no

Noun

etileno m (usually uncountable, plural etilenos)

1. (organic chemistry) ethylene (a colourless gaseous hydrocarbon)

Further reading

• “etileno”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “etileno”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /etiˈleno/ [e.t̪iˈle.no]
• Rhymes: -eno
• Syllabification: e‧ti‧le‧no

Noun

etileno m (plural etilenos)

1. (organic chemistry) ethylene (a colourless gaseous hydrocarbon)

   Synonym: eteno

Derived terms

• óxido de etileno
• tetracloroetileno
• tricloroetileno

Further reading

• “etileno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025