molecula
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Etymology
Noun
molecula (plural moleculae)
- (now historical) A molecule; a small particle of something. [from 18th c.]
- 1751, John Locke, Elements of Natural Philosophy, section XII:
- Smal bodies, of Atoms, out of whose various combinations bigger molleculæ are made.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009:
- They acted by the ancient organized states in the shape of their old organization, and not by the organic moleculae of a disbanded people.
Alternative forms
Etymology
Derived from mōlēs (“mass”) + -cula (diminutive suffix). Coined by René Descartes in the 1620s. Modern meaning first used by Amedeo Avogadro in 1811.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /moːˈleː.ku.la/, [moːˈɫ̪eːkʊɫ̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /moˈle.ku.la/, [moˈlɛːkulä]
Noun
mōlēcula f (genitive mōlēculae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
- → English: molecule
- → Armenian: մոլեկուլ (molekul)
- → Asturian: molécula
- → Catalan: molècula
- → Czech: molekula
- → Estonian: molekul
- → Finnish: molekyyli
- → French: molécule
- → Galician: molécula
- → Georgian: მოლეკულა (moleḳula)
- → Ido: molekulo
- → Italian: molecola
- → Latvian: molekula
- → Macedonian: молекула (molekula)
- → Norman: molétchule
- → Norwegian: molekyl
- → Polish: molekuła
- → Portuguese: molécula
- → Romanian: moleculă
- → Russian: моле́кула (molékula)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Sicilian: mulìcula
- → Slovene: molekula
- → Spanish: molécula
- → Swedish: molekyl
- → Turkish: molekül
References
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