oxygène

See also: oxygéné

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔk.si.ʒɛn/

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• Hyphenation: ox‧y‧gène

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der.?

Ancient Greek ὀξύς (oxús)

Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os

Proto-Hellenic *génos

Ancient Greek γένος (génos)

French oxygène

From Ancient Greek ὀξύς (oxús, “sharp, sour, acid”) + γένος (génos, “birth”). Coined by Antoine de Lavoisier in 1778 under the mistaken assumption that it was a constituent of all acids.

Noun

oxygène m (countable and uncountable, plural oxygènes)

1. (uncountable) oxygen
2. an atom or a nucleus of oxygen in a molecule

Derived terms

• antioxygène
• masque à oxygène

Descendants

• → Armenian: թթվածին (tʻtʻvacin) (calque)
• → English: oxygen
• → German: Sauerstoff (calque)
• → Polish: kwasoród (calque)
• → Russian: кислоро́д (kisloród) (calque)
• → Turkish: oksijen

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

oxygène

1. inflection of oxygéner:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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