odorant
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
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Noun
odorant (plural odorants)
- Any substance that has a distinctive smell, especially one added to something (such as household gas) for safety purposes
Translations
substance with distinctive smell
Adjective
odorant
Derived terms
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin odorans.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔ.dɔ.ʁɑ̃/
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Adjective
odorant (feminine odorante, masculine plural odorants, feminine plural odorantes)
- scented, aromatic
- acore odorant ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “odorant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Latin
Verb
odōrant
- third-person plural present active indicative of odōrō
Romanian
Etymology
Adjective
odorant m or n (feminine singular odorantă, masculine plural odoranți, feminine/neuter plural odorante)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | odorant | odorantă | odoranți | odorante | |||
| definite | odorantul | odoranta | odoranții | odorantele | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | odorant | odorante | odoranți | odorante | |||
| definite | odorantului | odorantei | odoranților | odorantelor | ||||