aldehyde

See also: Aldehyde and aldéhyde

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Aldehyd, a contraction of the Latin al(cohol) dehyd(rogenātum).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈæl.dɪ.haɪd/
Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

aldehyde (plural aldehydes)

(organic chemistry) Any of a large class of reactive organic compounds (R·CHO) having a carbonyl functional group attached to one hydrocarbon radical and a hydrogen atom.
- 2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 180:
  The air smells of strange, oceanic aldehydes.

Derived terms

Related terms

formaldehyde (R = H)
acetaldehyde (R = CH₃)
benzaldehyde (R = C₆H₅)

Translations

organic compound of the general formula R·CHO

Catalan: aldehid (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 醛 (cyun⁴)

Mandarin: 醛 (zh) (quán)
Czech: aldehyd (cs) m
Danish: aldehyd
Esperanto: aldehido
Estonian: aldehüüd
Finnish: aldehydi (fi)
French: aldéhyde (fr) m
German: Aldehyd (de) n
Greek: αλδεΰδη (el) f (aldeÿ́di)
Hungarian: aldehid (hu)
Indonesian: aldehida (id), alkanal
Irish: aildéad m
Italian: aldeide (it) f
Japanese: アルデヒド (arudehido)
Kazakh: альдегид (aldegid)
Khmer: អាល់ដេអ៊ីត (ʼaldeeʼiit)
Korean: 알데하이드 (aldehaideu), 알데히드 (ko) (aldehideu)
Maori: hāparo
Norwegian:
Bokmål: aldehyd (no) n

Nynorsk: aldehyd n
Persian: آلدئید‎ (âlde'id), آلدهید‎ (âldehid)
Polish: aldehyd (pl) m
Portuguese: aldeído m
Russian: альдеги́д (ru) m (alʹdegíd)
Spanish: aldehído (es) m
Swedish: aldehyd (sv) c
Ukrainian: альдегі́д (uk) m (alʹdehíd)
Vietnamese: an-đê-hít

See also

ketone

Anagrams

headedly

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Aldehyd.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɑldəˈɦidə/
Audio (file)
Hyphenation: al‧de‧hy‧de

Noun

aldehyde m (plural aldehyden)

(organic chemistry) aldehyde

Related terms

-al

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