Noun: aniline
| Singular | aniline |
| Plural | anilines |
Sample Sentences
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The page was indeed still damp and the scent of fresh aniline dye flooded Millie with euphoria. It was perhaps her favorite smell. [2020, Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman, Corsair (2021), page 365:]
Nouns inflected like aniline
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *neyH-der.?
3. Sanskrit नील॑ (nī́la)der.
4. Middle Persian 𐭭𐭩𐭫 (nīl)bor.
5. Arabic نِيل (nīl)der.
6. Andalusian Arabicbor.
7. Portuguese anil
8. Proto-Indo-European *-nós
9. Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
10. Proto-Italic *-īnos
11. Latin -īnusder.
12. German -in
13. German Anilinbor.
14. English aniline
15. Borrowed from German Anilin, coined by German chemist Carl Julius Fritzsche. From Portuguese anil (“indigo”) + -in (“-ine (organic compounds)”). See: German Nouns '
Anilin', Portuguese Nouns '
anil'.