phenol

phenol

See also: Phenol and phénol

English

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.

Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō

Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō)der.

French phènebor.

English phenol

From French phène, from Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō, “to clear”), as it was used for illumination, name given by Auguste Laurente in 1836.^[1]

By surface analysis, pheno- +‎ -ol.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Received Pronunciation) /ˈfiːnɒl/^[2]
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfiˌnɔl/, /ˈfiˌnɑl/, /ˈfiˌnoʊl/^[2]
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Noun

phenol (countable and uncountable, plural phenols)

(organic chemistry, uncountable) A caustic, poisonous, white crystalline compound, C₆H₅OH, derived from benzene and used in resins, plastics, and pharmaceuticals and in dilute form as a disinfectant and antiseptic; once called carbolic acid
(organic chemistry, countable) Any of a class of aromatic organic compounds having at least one hydroxyl group attached directly to the benzene ring (or other aromatic ring)

Synonyms

(caustic compound derived from benzene): carbolic acid
benzenol
hydroxybenzene

Hyponyms

Phenol compounds

Derived terms

Translations

caustic compound derived from benzene

Arabic: فِينُول m (fīnūl), أَسْفَنِيك m (ʔasfanīk) (Iraq)
Bulgarian: фенол (bg) m (fenol)
Catalan: fenol m, hidroxibenzè m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 苯酚 (bun² fan¹)

Mandarin: 苯酚 (zh) (běnfēn)
Czech: fenol m
Finnish: fenoli (fi)
French: phénol (fr) m
German: Phenol (de) n
Greek: φαινόλη (el) f (fainóli)
Gujarati: દર્શવ (darśav)
Hindi: दर्शव (darśav)
Hungarian: fenol (hu)
Irish: feanól m
Italian: fenolo (it) m
Japanese: フェノール (ja) (fenōru), 石炭酸 (せきたんさん, sekitansan)
Korean: 페놀 (penol), 석탄산(石炭酸) (ko) (seoktansan)
Occitan: fenol m
Persian: فنول (fenol)
Polish: fenol (pl) m
Portuguese: fenol (pt) m
Russian: фено́л (ru) m (fenól)
Spanish: fenol (es) m
Swedish: fenol (sv) c
Tagalog: penol
Turkish: fenol (tr)
Ukrainian: фено́л m (fenól)
Vietnamese: phenol (vi)
Welsh: ffenol m

any of a class of aromatic organic compounds having at least one hydroxyl group attached directly to the benzene ring

Arabic: فِينُول m (fīnūl)
Bulgarian: фенол (bg) m (fenol)
Catalan: fenol m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 酚 (fan¹)

Mandarin: 酚 (zh) (fēn)
Czech: fenol m
Finnish: fenoli (fi)
French: phénol (fr) m
German: Phenol (de) n
Hindi: दर्शव (darśav)
Italian: fenolo (it) m
Japanese: フェノール (ja) (fenōru)
Korean: 페놀 (penol)
Occitan: fenol m
Polish: fenol (pl) m
Portuguese: fenol (pt) m
Russian: фено́л (ru) m (fenól)
Spanish: fenol (es) m
Swedish: fenol (sv) c
Vietnamese: phenol (vi)
Welsh: ffenol m

See also

phenyl

References

^ Auguste Laurent (1836) "Sur la chlorophénise et les acides chlorophénisique et chlorophénèsique," Annales de Chemie et de Physique, vol. 63, pp. 27–45, see p. 44: Je donne le nom de phène au radical fondamental des acides précédens (φαινω, j'éclaire), puisque la benzine se trouve dans le gaz de l'éclairage. (I give the name of "phène" (φαινω, I illuminate) to the fundamental radical of the preceding acid, because benzene is found in illuminating gas.)
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 “phenol”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.

Anagrams

holpen

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

phê-nôn, phê-non

Etymology

Borrowed from French phénol.

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [fe˧˧ non˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [fej˧˧ non˧˧]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [fej˧˧ non˧˧]
Phonetic spelling: phê nôń

Noun

phenol

(organic chemistry) phenol

Derived terms

phenolphtalein