paraffin

英 ['p?r?f?n] 美['p?r?f?n]

英英釋義實(shí)用場(chǎng)景例句

n. 石蠟；[有化] 鏈烷烴；硬石蠟
vt. 用石蠟處理；涂石蠟于…

TEM8暢通詞匯

詞態(tài)變化

復(fù)數(shù):?paraffins;

助記提示

1. *pau- "few, little; small, young" => paraffin, few, poor, puerility, paucity, parvi-, foal, Paul, poco, pullet, pony, pullulate, pusillanimous, pauper, poverty, (pais (genitive paidos) "child" => ped- "child"), puerile.
2. *pau- "few, little; small, young" => few, poor, puer "child", pauper, foal, Paul, ped- "child".
3. So called because paraffin is chemically not closely related to other substances.
4. 蠟燭就是由石蠟制成的。
5. 石蠟主要是從石油中提煉出來(lái)的，故名石蠟。

中文詞源

paraffin 石蠟，煤油

來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ)parum,一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)，不多，來(lái)自PIE*pau,少的，詞源同few,poor.-affin,相似，詞源同affinity,finite.來(lái)自該物質(zhì)發(fā)明者19世紀(jì)德國(guó)化學(xué)家Karl von Reichenbach根據(jù)拉丁語(yǔ)創(chuàng)造出來(lái)的一個(gè)詞，因石蠟與蜂蠟有一點(diǎn)相似而得名，后也用于指煤油。

英文詞源

paraffin: paraffin: [19] The term paraffin was coined in German around 1830 by the chemist Reichenbach. It was formed from Latin parum ‘little’ and affinis ‘related’ (source of English affinity), an allusion to the fact that paraffin is not closely related chemically to any other substance. The word is first recorded in English in 1838.
=> affinity, fine
paraffin (n.): 1838, from German Paraffin, coined c. 1830 by German chemist Karl von Reichenbach (1788-1869), who first obtained it as a waxy substance from wood tar, irregularly from Latin parum "not very, too little," probably related to parvus "little, small" (see parvi-) + affinis "associated with" (see affinity).

So called because paraffin is chemically not closely related to other substances. The liquid form (originally parafin oil) Reichenbach called eupion, but this was the standard meaning of paraffin in English by 1860.