aldehyde

See also: Aldehyde and aldéhyde

English

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aldehyde

Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæl.dɪ.haɪd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

aldehyde (plural aldehydes)

1. (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

• acetic aldehyde
• -al
• aldazine
• aldehyde oxidase
• aldehydic
• aldehydic acid
• aldimine
• aldol
• aminoaldehyde
• amino aldehyde
• bioaldehyde
• chinaldine
• cinnamaldehyde
• coniferyl aldehyde
• crotonaldehyde
• dialdehyde
• glutaraldehyde
• haloaldehyde
• heteroaldehyde
• isoaldehyde
• ketoaldehyde
• melon aldehyde
• monoaldehyde
• oxaldehyde
• oxoaldehyde
• perillaldehyde
• pivalaldehyde
• polyaldehyde
• selenoaldehyde
• semialdehyde
• strawberry aldehyde
• syringaldehyde
• thioaldehyde
• trialdehyde
• Zincke aldehyde

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 Dutch: aldehyde (nl) m 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 (ja) (arudehido) Kazakh: альдегид (aldegid) Khmer: អាល់ដេអ៊ីត (ʼaldeeʼiit) Korean: 알데하이드 (aldehaideu), 알데히드 (ko) (aldehideu) Maori: (w)hāparotahi Norwegian: Bokmål: aldehyd (no) n Nynorsk: aldehyd n Persian: آلدئید (fa) (âlde'id), آلدهید (fa) (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: anđêhit

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, no diminutive)

1. (organic chemistry) aldehyde

Related terms

• -al