different between azote vs inflammable

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French azote, from Ancient Greek ?- (a-, “without”) + ??? (z??, “life”). Named by French chemist and biologist Antoine Lavoisier, who saw it as the part of air which cannot sustain life.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æz??t/

Noun

azote (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Nitrogen.
   • 1801, Christopher Girtanner, A Memoir, in which the Que?tion is examined, whether Azote be a ?imple or complex body?, William Nicholson (editor), Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts, Volume 4, page 170,

     The proportion of azote gas to that of the oxigen obtained is as 64 to 36.

   • 1823, Chemistry, entry in Charles Maclaren (chief editor), Encyclopædia Britannica, 6th Edition, page 366,

     Hence it is obvious that deutoxide of azote is a compound of one volume of azote and one volume of oxygen gas united together, without any alteration of volume, consequently its specific gravity is the mean of that of oxygen and azotic gases.It is composed, by weight, of azote 0.9722 or 1.75, oxygen 1.1111 or 2. If we reckon the atomic weight of azote 1.75, this gas is obviously a compound of one atom azote and two atoms oxygen.

   • 1831, Thomas Thomson, A System of Chemistry of Inorganic Bodies, Volume 1, page 133,

     Those who have adopted these opinions, represent the atom of azote by the number 1.75. We consider the 5 compounds of azote and oxygen, as composed of 1 atom azote, united with 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, atoms of oxygen.

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French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?- (a-, “not”) + ??? (z??, “life”), coined by Antoine Lavoisier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.z?t/

Noun

azote m (plural azotes)

1. nitrogen

   Synonym: (obsolete) nitrogène

Derived terms

• diazote

Descendants

• ? English: azote
• ? Italian: azoto
• ? Lingala: azoti
• ? Portuguese: azoto
• ? Russian: ????? (azót) (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “azote” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latvian

Noun

azote f (5th declension)

1. bosom

Declension

Derived terms

• k? azot?
• audz?t ??sku azot?
• sild?t ??sku azot?

Portuguese

Verb

azote

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of azotar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of azotar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of azotar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of azotar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /a??ote/, [a??o.t?e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /a?sote/, [a?so.t?e]
• Rhymes: -ote

Etymology 1

From Arabic ??? (al-) + ?????? (saw?, “whip, cane”). Compare Portuguese açoite.

Noun

azote m (plural azotes)

1. whip, lash, scourge (multi-tailed whip, especially when used by flagellants for mortification of the sinful flesh)

   Synonyms: fusta, látigo

2. (countable) lash (stroke with a whip)
3. (uncountable) spanking, licking, thrashing (severe beating)
4. calamity, scourge (event that causes great trouble and suffering, such as pestilence)

Derived terms

• azotar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

azote

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of azotar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of azotar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of azotar.

Further reading

• “azote” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Middle French inflammable, from Medieval Latin ?nflamm?bilis, from Latin ?nflamm?re (“to set on fire”), from in (“in, on”) + flamma (“flame”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?n?fl?m-?-b?l, IPA^(key): /?n?flæm?b?l/

Adjective

inflammable (comparative more inflammable, superlative most inflammable)

1. Capable of burning; easily set on fire.

   Synonyms: combustible, flammable

   Antonyms: fireproof, incombustible, nonflammable, noninflammable, uninflammable
2. (figuratively) Easily excited; set off by the slightest excuse; easily enraged or inflamed.

   Synonyms: hot-headed, quick to anger

   Antonyms: level-headed, unflappable

3. Incapable of burning; not easily set on fire.

   Synonyms: fireproof, incombustible, nonflammable, noninflammable, uninflammable

   Antonyms: combustible, flammable

Usage notes

• Inflammable, although originally meant as a synonym of flammable, is nowadays often used as an antonym of flammable, and, as such, may be taken to have the opposite meaning to that intended (depending on whether the writer and/or the reader use inflammable as a synonym, or as an antonym, of flammable). Where such confusion might arise, especially where this may be a safety hazard, one may prefer to use flammable or non-flammable (depending on whether inflammable would have been used as a synonym or as an antonym of flammable) or another synonym.

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Translations

Noun

inflammable (plural inflammables)

1. Any inflammable substance.

Further reading

• inflammable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• inflammable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Middle French inflammer +? -able, from Latin ?nflamm?bilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.fla.mabl/
• Homophone: inflammables
• Hyphenation: in?fla?mmable

Adjective

inflammable (plural inflammables)

1. flammable, inflammable

   Antonym: ininflammable

Derived terms

• inflammabilité

Further reading

• “inflammable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).