santal
English
Etymology
From Santalum (“genus of sandalwood”) + -al (“aldehyde”). Compare santyl and santalol
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsæntæl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
santal (uncountable)
- (organic chemistry) A colourless crystalline substance, isomeric with piperonal, but having weak acid properties. It is extracted from sandalwood.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “santal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Cebuano
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: san‧tal
Noun
santal
- Ixora, the only genus in the tribe Ixoreae, flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Medieval Latin santalum, sandalum, from Byzantine Greek σάνταλον (sántalon), from Arabic صَنْدَل (ṣandal).
Noun
santal m (plural sandals or santaux)
- sandalwood (any of various trees in genus Santalum; the aromatic wood of such trees)
Usage notes
The plural santaux was used until the 19th century, when it was superseded by santals.
Descendants
Etymology 2
Noun
santal m (uncountable)
- Santali (Austroasiatic language of eastern South Asia)
Further reading
- “santal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Romanian
Etymology
Noun
santal m (plural santal)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | santal | santalul | santali | santalii | |
| genitive-dative | santal | santalului | santali | santalilor | |
| vocative | santalule | santalilor | |||