different between aromatic vs myrrhic

English

Alternative forms

• aromatick (obsolete)
• aromatique (obsolete)

Etymology

Late Middle English, from Middle French and Old French aromatique, from Late Latin aromaticus, from Ancient Greek ????? (ár?ma, “seasoning, spicy and/or fragrant smell”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /æ.???mæt.?k/
• Rhymes: -æt?k

Adjective

aromatic (comparative more aromatic, superlative most aromatic)

1. Fragrant or spicy.
2. (organic chemistry) Having a closed ring of alternate single and double bonds with delocalized electrons.
3. (organic chemistry) Derived from benzene.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with aromantic.

Antonyms

• (organic chemistry): aliphatic

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

aromatic (plural aromatics)

1. A fragrant plant or spice added to a dish to flavour it.
2. (organic chemistry) Any aromatic compound.

Translations

Anagrams

• macrotia

Romanian

Etymology

From French aromatique, from Latin aromaticus.

Adjective

aromatic m or n (feminine singular aromatic?, masculine plural aromatici, feminine and neuter plural aromatice)

1. aromatic

Declension

Related terms

• arom?

English

Etymology

myrrh +? -ic.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m???ik/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m??ik/
• Hyphenation: myrrh?ic

Adjective

myrrhic (not comparable)

1. Of, related to, or derived from myrrh.
2. (poetic) Having a pleasant fragrance; aromatic.
   • 1916, Emanuel Morgan [pseudonym; Witter Brynner], “The Locust-tree”, in Anne Knish [pseudonym; Arthur Davison Ficke]; Emanuel Morgan, Spectra: A Book of Poetic Experiments, New York, N.Y.: Mitchell Kennerley, OCLC 10672070, archived from the original on 22 July 2012, opus 45:

     All the fragrances of dew, O angel, are there, / The myrrhic rapture of young hair, […]

Quotations

• For more quotations using this term, see Citations:myrrhic.

Related terms

• myrrh
• myrrhic acid
• myrrhine

Translations