Noun: anion
| Singular | anion |
| Plural | anions |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like anion
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-
3. Proto-Hellenic *aná
4. Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰ́ (ănắ)
5. Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰ- (ănă-)
6. Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey-
7. Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti
8. Proto-Graeco-Phrygian *éimi
9. Proto-Hellenic *éimi
10. Ancient Greek ῐ̓όν (ĭón)
11. Ancient Greek ἀνῐόν (anĭón)lbor.
12. English anion
13. Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀνιόν (anión, “(thing) going up”), neuter present participle of ἄνειμι (áneimi, “go up”), from ἀνά (aná, “up”) + εἶμι (eîmi, “go”). Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1834 for Michael Faraday, who introduced it later that year. By surface analysis, an- (“up, away, forward”) + ion.
Verbs referencing "anion"
Polish Nouns
anion, German Nouns
Anion, Finnish Nouns
anioni, Spanish Nouns
anión.