saccharine

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsækəɹaɪn/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /-ɹɪn/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /-ɹiːn/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsækɹɪn/
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• General-American: /ˈsækəɹɪn/
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• General-American: /-ɹən/
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• General-American: /ˈsækɹɪn/
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• homophone: saccharin
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• CMU ARPABET: S AE1 K ER0 AY2 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh2 Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā) Pali sakkharābor. Ancient Greek σάκχᾰρον (sákkhăron)bor. Latin saccharon New Latin saccharum Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ine English saccharine From New Latin saccharum (“sugar”) + English -ine (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Saccharum is derived from saccharon (“syrupy liquid from bamboo or reeds”), from Ancient Greek σάκχαρον (sákkharon), from Pali sakkharā (“sugar; gravel; granule, grain; crystal; potsherd”), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “ground or candied sugar; cotton sugar, sugarmaple; gravel, grit, pebbles; potsherd”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh2 (“boulder; gravel”).

From saccharin + -ine (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives).

A variant of saccharin.

48 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: سُكَّرِيّ (sukkariyy) — of or relating to sugar — see also sugary
• Bulgarian: захарен (zaharen) — of or relating to sugar — see also sugary
• Catalan: sacarí — of or relating to sugar — see also sugary
• Dutch: suikerachtig — of or relating to sugar — see also sugary
• Icelandic: sætur — of or relating to sugar — see also sugary
• Italian: saccarifero — of or relating to sugar — see also sugary
• Italian: saccarino — of or relating to sugar — see also sugary
• Latin: saccharīnus — of or relating to sugar — see also sugary
• Portuguese: sacarino — of or relating to sugar — see also sugary
• Romanian: mieros — of or relating to sugar — see also sugary
• Russian: при́торный (prítornyj) — of or relating to sugar — see also sugary
• Serbo-Croatian: саха̀рӣнскӣ — of or relating to sugar — see also sugary
• Serbo-Croatian: sahàrīnskī — of or relating to sugar — see also sugary
• Spanish: sacarino — of or relating to sugar — see also sugary
• Spanish: sacarífero — of or relating to sugar — see also sugary
• Bulgarian: сладникав (sladnikav) — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• Dutch: sacharine — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• Dutch: honingzoet — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• Dutch: mierzoet — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• Dutch: weeïg — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• Dutch: zoetsappig — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• Finnish: imelä — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• Finnish: siirappinen — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• French: cucul la praline — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• French: fleur bleue — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• German: süßlich — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• Italian: dolciastro — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• Italian: mieloso — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• Italian: sdolcinato — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• Italian: smielato — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• Italian: stucchevole — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• Italian: svenevole — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• Italian: zuccheroso — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• Māori: āwenewene — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• Polish: ckliwy — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• Romanian: dulceag — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• Romanian: mieros — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• Russian: при́торный (prítornyj) — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• Serbo-Croatian: саха̀рӣнскӣ — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• Serbo-Croatian: sahàrīnskī — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• Spanish: cursi — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• Spanish: dulzón — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• Spanish: empalagoso — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• Spanish: meloso — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• Spanish: pasteloso — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• Spanish: sensiblero — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• Swedish: sötsliskig — excessively sweet, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness
• Chinese Mandarin: 糖精 (tángjīng) — of or relating to saccharin