aniline

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Anilin, coined by German chemist Carl Julius Fritzsche. From Portuguese anil (“indigo”) + -in (“-ine (organic compounds)”).

Noun

aniline (countable and uncountable, plural anilines)

(organic chemistry) The simplest aromatic amine, C₆H₅NH₂, synthesized by the reduction of nitrobenzene; it is a colourless oily basic poisonous liquid used in the manufacture of dyes and pharmaceuticals.

Synonyms

Derived terms

polyaniline

Translations

the simplest aromatic amine

Czech: anilin m
Finnish: aniliini (fi)
French: aniline (fr) f
German: Anilin (de) n
Greek: ανιλίνη (el) f (anilíni)
Hungarian: anilin (hu)
Irish: anailín m

Italian: anilina (it) f
Portuguese: anilina f
Russian: анили́н (ru) m (anilín)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: анѝлӣн m

Roman: anìlīn (sh) m
Spanish: anilina f

French

Noun

aniline f (uncountable)

(organic chemistry) aniline

References

aniline on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Further reading

“aniline” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

aniline f

plural of anilina

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