- saccharin, saccharine
- The first is an artificial sweetener; the second means sugary.
Dictionary of troublesome word. Bill Bryson. 2013.
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saccharin, saccharine — The first is an artificial sweetener; the second means sugary … Dictionary of troublesome word
saccharin — ● saccharin, saccharine adjectif De la nature du sucre. Relatif au sucre, à sa fabrication. ⇒SACCHARIN, INE, adj. A. CHIM. Qui est de la nature du sucre, qui en contient. Richesse saccharine des betteraves, des racines; acide saccharin. Les… … Encyclopédie Universelle
saccharine — [ sakarin ] n. f. • 1868; angl. Saccharine, n. déposé ♦ Substance blanche à fort pouvoir édulcorant utilisée comme succédané du sucre. Café édulcoré à la saccharine (SACCHARINÉ, ÉE adj. ). ● saccharine nom féminin Imide de l acide orthotoluène… … Encyclopédie Universelle
sacchariné — saccharine [ sakarin ] n. f. • 1868; angl. Saccharine, n. déposé ♦ Substance blanche à fort pouvoir édulcorant utilisée comme succédané du sucre. Café édulcoré à la saccharine (SACCHARINÉ, ÉE adj. ). ● saccharine nom féminin Imide de l acide… … Encyclopédie Universelle
saccharin — saccharin, saccharine Saccharin is a noun denoting a sugar substitute, and saccharine is an adjective meaning (literally) ‘sugary’ or (figuratively) ‘unpleasantly over polite or sentimental’ … Modern English usage
saccharine — saccharin, saccharine Saccharin is a noun denoting a sugar substitute, and saccharine is an adjective meaning (literally) ‘sugary’ or (figuratively) ‘unpleasantly over polite or sentimental’ … Modern English usage
Saccharine — Général Nom IUPAC 1,1 dioxo 1,2 benzothiazol 3 one Synonymes S … Wikipédia en Français
saccharin — saccharin, ine (sa kka rin, ri in ) adj. 1° Qui contient du sucre, qui en a les caractères. La richesse saccharine des betteraves. • Lorsque la betterave a terminé sa végétation saccharine, si je puis m exprimer ainsi, il se forme du nitrate… … Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré
saccharin — (n.) white crystalline compound used as a sugar substitute, 1885, from German, coined by chemist C. Fahlberg, 1879, who discovered it by accident, from L. saccharon (see SACCHARINE (Cf. saccharine)). Marketed from 1887 as saccharine … Etymology dictionary
saccharine — (adj.) 1670s, of or like sugar, from M.L. saccharum sugar, from L. saccharon, from Gk. sakkharon, from Pali sakkhara, from Skt. sarkara gravel, grit (see SUGAR (Cf. sugar)). Metaphoric sense of overly sweet first recorded 1841. For the sugar… … Etymology dictionary
