Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
No pronunciation record was provided for this word.
adj
Of or pertaining to an enantiomer or the relation between enantiomers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h1én Ancient Greek ἐν (en) Ancient Greek ἐν- (en-) Proto-Indo-European *h2ent- Proto-Indo-European *h2entíos Proto-Hellenic *antíos Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ος (ăntĭ́os) Ancient Greek ἐνᾰντῐ́ος (enăntĭ́os)der. English enantio- Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer-der. Proto-Hellenic *(h)méros Ancient Greek μέρος (méros)lbor. English -mer English enantiomer Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English enantiomeric From enantiomer + -ic.
Across languages
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
