different between corrosive vs corrodent

English

Etymology

From Old French corrosif.

Adjective

corrosive (comparative more corrosive, superlative most corrosive)

1. Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid.
2. Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
3. destroying or undermining something gradually.

Related terms

Translations

Noun

corrosive (plural corrosives)

1. That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.
2. Any solid, liquid or gas capable of irreparably harming living tissues or damaging material on contact.

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.?o.ziv/

Adjective

corrosive

1. feminine singular of corrosif

Italian

Adjective

corrosive

1. feminine plural of corrosivo

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kor.ro??si?.u?e/, [k?r?o??s?i?u??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kor.ro?si.ve/, [k?r???s?i?v?]

Adjective

corr?s?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of corr?s?vus

English

Etymology

An adaptation of corr?dent-, the stem of the Latin corr?d?ns (“gnawing”, “corroding”), the present participle of corr?d? (“I gnaw [to pieces]”).

Adjective

corrodent (comparative more corrodent, superlative most corrodent)

1. corrosive

Synonyms

• (corrosive): corrodant

Noun

corrodent (plural corrodents)

1. Anything that corrodes.
   • 1880, Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine of Utah

     In fact, it is used in a variety of medicines; we boil, burn, and distil it, to produce salts, corrodents, sublimates, […]

   • 1951, Food Engineering (volume 23, page 143)

     Hex nut is made of carbon steel or Monel, while parts coming in contact with corrodents are made of metals suited to the particular applications.

Synonyms

• (anything that corrodes): corrodant

French

Verb

corrodent

1. third-person plural present indicative of corroder
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of corroder

Anagrams

• corderont

Latin

Verb

corr?dent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of corr?d?