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 (GA)

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Noun

ethanol (usually uncountable, plural ethanols)

1. (organic chemistry) A simple aliphatic alcohol formally derived from ethane by replacing one hydrogen atom with a hydroxyl group: CH₃-CH₂-OH.
2. Specifically, this 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

Translations

simple aliphatic alcohol: CH₃-CH₂-OH

• Afrikaans: etanol (af)
• Arabic: إِيثَانُول m (ʔiṯānūl)
• Bulgarian: е́танол m (étanol)
• 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 (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)

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)

1. (organic chemistry) ethanol

Descendants

• → Indonesian: etanol

Indonesian

Noun

ethanol (first-person possessive ethanolku, second-person possessive ethanolmu, third-person possessive ethanolnya)

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