iode

Borrowed from French iode.

iode (countable and uncountable, plural iodes)
(chemistry, obsolete)

1. Synonym of iodine.
   • 1830, Herschel, Stud. Nat. Phil., page 94:

     The general family resemblance between certain groups of bodies, now regarded as elementary, (as…for instance, chloride, iode, and brome).

2. Synonym of iodide.
   • 1826, Henry, Elem. Chem., volume I, page 500:

     All the metals unite with iodine, and form compounds which have been called iodes, iodures, or iodides. The last term is to be preferred, on account of the analogy of the compounds denoted by it with oxides and chlorides.

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “† Iode.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume V (H–K), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 470, column 2.

From Ancient Greek ἰώδης (iṓdēs, “violet-coloured”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈjɔ.ðə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈjɔ.ðe]

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iode m (uncountable)

1. iodine

• iodar
• iodur

• “iode”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “iode”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “iode” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “iode”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῐ̓ώδης (ĭṓdēs, “violet-coloured”), so named for the colour of its vapour. Coined by French chemist and physicist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac in 1812.

• IPA^(key): /jɔd/

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• Homophone: yod

iode m (uncountable)

1. iodine (chemical element)

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

iode

1. inflection of iodar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative