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-ene

suffix
/-iːn/UK/-in/CA

Etymology

Borrowed from French -ène, chosen by French chemist Jean-Baptiste Dumas to avoid confusion with chemicals in -ine.

  1. derived from -ηνός
  2. borrowed from -ēnus

Definitions

  1. Forms adjectives relating to places and nouns for their inhabitants.

    • Cairo + -ene → Cairene
    • Damascus + -ene → Damascene

  2. Forms adjectives and nouns denoting religious groups from personal names.

    • Rogers + -ene → Rogerene
    • Hagar + -ene → Hagarene

  3. An unsaturated hydrocarbon having at least one double bond

    An unsaturated hydrocarbon having at least one double bond; an alkene.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. An aromatic hydrocarbon based on benzene.

    2. A polymer derived from an alkene.

    3. A single-atom thick two-dimensional layer of atoms.

The neighborhood

Derived

-diene, -enyl

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA