paraffine

common nounverb

Syllable Decomposition

paraffine

from the German 'paraffin', a word created in 1830 by the chemist Karl von Reichenbach from the Latin 'parum affinis' ("having little affinity").

Definition

chimie

Plural

paraffines

Translations

  • germangerman:Paraffin
  • englishenglish:paraffin
  • spanishspanish:parafina
  • italianitalian:paraffina

See also

paraffine (v.) déparaffiner (v.) déparaffinage (cn.) parafinique (adj.) paraffinique (adj.) paraffinage (cn.) paraffiner (v.)