acid

See also: ACID, Acid, and àcid

English

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acid

Wikipedia

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der.

Latin aceō

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Latin -idus

Latin acidusbor.

French acidebor.

English acid

From French acide, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”), from aceō (“I am sour”). Doublet of agita.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: ăs'ĭd, IPA^(key): /ˈæsɪd/
Audio (General American): (file)
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Rhymes: -æsɪd

Adjective

acid (comparative acider, superlative acidest)

Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
acid fruits or liquors
(figuratively) Sour-tempered.
His response was harsh and acid.
- 1864, Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington, 2nd edition, volume 2, Smith, Elder & Co., page 235:
  His voice was as stern and his face as acid as ever.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
  It must be admitted that Challenger is provocative in the last degree, but Summerlee has an acid tongue, which makes matters worse.
- 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), page 373, column 2:
  Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy—[…]—distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its flavor.
Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
acid soils
- 1975, Peter N. Barber, Cecil Ernest Lucas Phillips, The Trees Around Us, page 101:
  Like other nyssas, it is in nature a creature of swampy places and looks loveliest where massed close to water and reflected in it, but justifies itself elsewhere if the soil is moist and acid, succeeding in wet clay.
(music) Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:acid.

Synonyms

acidic

Antonyms

Derived terms

Related terms

acetic

Translations

sour, sharp, or biting to the taste

Afrikaans: suur (af)
Altai:
Southern Altai: кычкыл (kïčkïl)
Arabic: حَامِض (ḥāmiḍ)
Armenian: թթու (hy) (tʻtʻu)
Asturian: ácidu (ast)
Belarusian: кі́слы m (kísly)
Bengali: অম্ল (bn) (omlo)
Bulgarian: кисел (bg) (kisel)
Catalan: àcid (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 酸 (zh) (suān)
Czech: kyselý (cs)
Danish: sur (da)
Dutch: zuur (nl)
Esperanto: acida (eo)
Estonian: hapu, kibe (et)
Finnish: hapan (fi), hapokas (fi)
French: aigre (fr), acide (fr)
Galician: ácido (gl)
Georgian: მჟავე (mžave)
German: sauer (de)
Greek: οξύς (el) m (oxýs), ξινός (el) m (xinós)
Gullah: aacit
Hebrew: חמוץ (he)
Hindi: अम्ल (hi) m (amla), तेज़ाब (tezāb)
Hungarian: fanyar (hu), savanyú (hu), kesernyés (hu)
Icelandic: súr (is), beiskur (is)
Ido: acida (io)
Indonesian: asam (id)
Italian: acido (it)
Japanese: すっぱい (ja) (suppai), 酸っぱい (ja) (suppai)
K'iche': ch'am
Korean: 시다 (ko) (sida)
Kyrgyz: кычкыл (ky) (kıckıl), кычкылдык (ky) (kıckıldık), кычкыл нерсе (ky) (kıckıl nerse), кислота (ky) (kislota), жегич (ky) (jegic), ачыштыргыч (acıştırgıc), курч (ky) (kurc), күйгүзүүчү (ky) (küygüzüücü), шылдың (ky) (şıldıŋ), какшык (ky) (kakşık), кекээр (kekeer), кыжырлантуучу (ky) (kıjırlantuucu), сайгылаган (saygılagan), ачуу (ky) (acuu), уулуу (ky) (uuluu), заардуу (ky) (zaarduu)
Latin: acidus (la)
Latvian: skābs (lv) m, skāba f
Lithuanian: rūgštis (lt) f
Luxembourgish: sauer
Macedonian: кисел (kisel)
Malay: masam (ms), berasid (ms)
Malayalam: അമ്ലം (ml) (amlaṁ), ആസിഡ് (āsiḍŭ)
Māori: kawa (mi), hīmoemoe
Marathi: आम्ल n (āmla)
Norwegian: sur (no)
Old Church Slavonic: кꙑсѣлъ (kysělŭ)
Persian: اسید (fa) (asid), آچار (fa) (âčâr), ترش (fa) (torš)
Polish: kwaśny (pl)
Portuguese: ácido (pt), azedo (pt)
Romanian: acru (ro), acid (ro)
Russian: ки́слый (ru) (kíslyj) (comparable), е́дкий (ru) (jédkij)
Sanskrit: आम्ल (sa) n (āmla)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: кисео

Latin: kiseo (sh)
Slovak: kyslý (sk)
Slovene: kisel (sl)
Spanish: agrio (es), ácido (es)
Swedish: sur (sv)
Telugu: ఆమ్లము (te) (āmlamu)
Thai: กรด (th) (gròt)
Turkish:
Ottoman Turkish: اكشی (ekşi), حامض (hamız)
Ukrainian: ки́слий (uk) (kýslyj)
Vietnamese: chua (vi)
Welsh: sur (cy), siarp (cy)
Yiddish: זויער (zoyer)

sour-tempered

Afrikaans: suur (af)
Arabic: لَاذِع (lāḏiʕ)
Armenian: խայթող (xaytʻoġ)
Bulgarian: ки́сел (bg) (kísel)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 尖酸 (zh) (jiānsuān)
Danish: sur (da)
Dutch: zuur (nl)
Esperanto: acida (eo)
Estonian: hapendatud
Finnish: hapan (fi)
French: acide (fr)
Galician: ácido (gl) m
German: sauer (de)
Greek: οξύς (el) m (oxýs), καυστικός (el) m (kafstikós), δριμύς (el) m (drimýs), ξινός (el) m (xinós)
Icelandic: meinhæðinn m, meinhæðin f, meinhæðið n
Ido: desafabla (io)
Italian: acido (it)
Latvian: skābs (lv) m, skāba f
Macedonian: кисел (kisel)
Norwegian: sur (no)
Persian: ترش (fa) (torš)
Polish: kwaśny (pl)
Portuguese: ácido (pt)
Romanian: acru (ro)
Russian: язви́тельный (ru) (jazvítelʹnyj), е́дкий (ru) (jédkij)
Spanish: malhumorado (es)
Swedish: sur (sv)
Thai: กรด (th) (gròt)
Turkish:
Ottoman Turkish: ایتی (iti)

of or pertaining to an acid

Arabic: حامض m (ḥāmiḍ)
Armenian: թթվային (hy) (tʻtʻvayin)
Bulgarian: кисели́нен (kiselínen)
Catalan: àcid (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 酸性 (zh) (suānxìng)
Esperanto: acida (eo)
Estonian: happeline
Finnish: hapan (fi)
French: acide (fr)
Galician: ácido (gl) m
German: sauer (de)
Greek: όξινος (el) m (óxinos)
Hindi: अम्ल (hi) m (amla)
Hungarian: savas (hu)
Ido: acida (io)
Indonesian: asam (id), masam (id)
Italian: acido (it)
Japanese: 酸性 (ja) (sansei)
Korean: 산성(酸性)의 (sanseon-g'ui)
Luxembourgish: sauer
Macedonian: кисели́нски (kiselínski)
Malay: berasid (ms), asam (ms), masam (ms)
Māori: kawa (mi)
Norwegian: syre-
Polish: kwaśny (pl)
Portuguese: ácido (pt)
Romanian: acid (ro)
Russian: кисло́тный (ru) (kislótnyj)
Sanskrit: आम्ल (sa) n (āmla)
Serbo-Croatian: kisèlīnskī (sh), kiseli (sh)
Spanish: ácido (es)
Swedish: syra-
Telugu: ఆమ్లము (te) (āmlamu)
Vietnamese: axit (vi)
Welsh: asidig

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Breton: ^{(please verify)} trenk (br), ^{(please verify)} sur (br)
Interlingua: (1, 2) ^{(please verify)} acide
Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} rūgštis (lt) f
Malay: (2) ^{(please verify)} masam (ms)
Rohingya: ^{(please verify)} ésíd

Noun

acid (countable and uncountable, plural acids)

A sour substance.
(chemistry)
1. Any compound which yields H+ ions (protons) when dissolved in water; an Arrhenius acid.
  - 2015 August 18, Clelia De-la-Peña et al., “The role of chromatin modifications in somatic embryogenesis in plants”, in Frontiers in Plant Science‎^[1], volume 6, →DOI:
    SE onset depends on a complex network of interactions among plant growth regulators, mainly auxins and cytokinins, during the proembryogenic early stages, and ethylene and gibberellic and abscisic acids later in the development of somatic embryos.
2. Any compound that easily donates protons to a base; a Brønsted acid.
3. Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid.
Any corrosive substance.
- 2006, James Fenton, Jerusalem:
  You are in error. / This is terror. / This is your banishment. This land is mine. / This is what you earn. / This is the Law of No Return. / This is the sour dough, this the sweet wine. / This is my history, this my race / And this unhappy man threw acid in my face.
(uncountable, slang) LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide.
- 1967, Joe David Brown, editor, The Hippies, New York: Time, Inc, page 171:
  In the end, though, there is one sure way to distinguish a real hippie from his assorted sympathizers: hippies drop acid. That is, real hippies frequently, if irregularly, ingest LSD.

Antonyms

alkali
base

Hyponyms

See also Thesaurus:acid

Derived terms

types of acid

Descendants

→ Welsh: asid

Translations

a sour substance

Afrikaans: suur (af)
Albanian: acid (sq), thartor (sq)
Altai:
Southern Altai: кычкыл (kïčkïl)
Arabic: حَامِض m (ḥāmiḍ), حَمْض m (ḥamḍ)
Armenian: թթու (hy) (tʻtʻu)
Azerbaijani: turşu (az)
Belarusian: кіслата́ f (kislatá)
Bengali: অম্ল (bn) (omlo)
Breton: trenkenn (br) f, trenkennoù (br) f pl
Bulgarian: киселина́ f (kiseliná)
Burmese: အက်စစ် (my) (akcac)
Catalan: àcid (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 酸 (zh) (suān)
Czech: kyselina (cs) f
Danish: syre (da) c
Dutch: zuur (nl) n
Estonian: hape
Farefare: mi'isgo
Faroese: sýra f
Finnish: hapan aine
French: acide (fr) m
Georgian: მჟავა (mžava)
German: Säure (de) f
Greek: οξύ (el) n (oxý)
Hebrew: חוּמצָה (he) f (khumtsá)
Hindi: अम्ल (hi) m (amla), एसिड (hi) (esiḍ), तेज़ाब m (tezāb), तेजाब (hi) m (tejāb), तुर्शी (hi) f (turśī)
Hungarian: sav (hu)
Icelandic: sýra (is) f
Ingrian: kislotta, happo
Irish: aigéad m
Italian: acido (it) m
Japanese: 酸 (ja) (さん, san)
Kazakh: қышқыл (kk) (qyşqyl), қышқылдық (kk) (qyşqyldyq)
Khmer: អាស៊ីត (ʼaasiit), ក្រុត (krot)
Korean: 산(酸) (ko) (san)
Kyrgyz: кычкылдык (ky) (kıckıldık)
Lao: ກົດ (lo) (kot)
Latvian: skābe (lv) f
Lithuanian: rūgštis (lt) f
Luxembourgish: Saier (lb) f
Macedonian: киселина (mk) f (kiselina)
Malay: asam (ms), asid (ms)
Māori: atiti
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: хүчил (mn) (xüčil)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: syre (no) m or f

Nynorsk: syre f
Persian:
Dari: تیزَاب (tēzāb)

Iranian Persian: اَسید (asid), تُرْشی (torši)
Polish: kwas (pl) m inan
Portuguese: ácido (pt) m
Russian: кислота́ (ru) f (kislotá), кисля́тина (ru) f (kisljátina) (colloquial, disparaging)
Sanskrit: अम्लम् (sa) (amlam), आम्ल (sa) n (āmla)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: киселѝна f

Latin: kiselìna (sh) f
Slovak: kyselina (sk) f
Slovene: kislina (sl) f
Spanish: ácido (es) m
Swedish: syra (sv) c
Tagalog: asido (tl)
Tajik: кислота (kislota), ҳомуз (homuz), туршӣ (turši)
Thai: กรด (th) (gròt)
Tocharian B: āmpäl
Turkish: asit (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: اكشی (ekşi), حامض (hamız)
Turkmen: kislota
Ukrainian: кислота́ (uk) f (kyslotá)
Urdu: تیزاب m (tezāb), تُرْشی f (turśī), ایسِڈ ? (esiḍ)
Uyghur: كىسلاتا (kislata)
Uzbek: kislota (uz)
Vietnamese: axít (vi)
Welsh: suryn m
Yoruba: ásíìdì, omiró

in chemistry

Albanian: acid (sq) m, thartor (sq)
Altai:
Southern Altai: кычкыл (kïčkïl)
Arabic: حَامِض m (ḥāmiḍ), حَمْض m (ḥamḍ)
Armenian: թթու (hy) (tʻtʻu)
Asturian: ácidu (ast) m
Azerbaijani: turşu (az)
Basque: azido
Belarusian: кіслата́ f (kislatá)
Bengali: অম্ল (bn) (omlo)
Bulgarian: киселина́ f (kiseliná)
Burmese: အက်စစ် (my) (akcac)
Catalan: àcid (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 酸 (syun¹)

Mandarin: 酸 (zh) (suān)
Czech: kyselina (cs) f
Danish: syre (da) c
Dutch: zuur (nl) n
Erzya: чапо (čapo)
Esperanto: acido (eo)
Estonian: hape
Faroese: sýra f
Finnish: happo (fi)
French: acide (fr) m
Friulian: acit m
Galician: ácido (gl) m
Georgian: მჟავა (mžava)
German: Säure (de) f
Greek: οξύ (el) n (oxý)
Hawaiian: waiʻawa
Hebrew: חוּמצָה (he) f (khumtsá)
Hindi: तेज़ाब m (tezāb), अम्ल (hi) (amla), तेजाब (hi) m (tejāb)
Hungarian: sav (hu)
Icelandic: sýra (is) f
Ido: acido (io)
Indonesian: asam (id)
Interlingua: acido
Irish: aigéad m
Italian: acido (it) m
Japanese: 酸 (ja) (さん, san)
Kazakh: қышқыл (kk) (qyşqyl)
Khmer: អាស៊ីត (ʼaasiit), គីមី អាស៊ីត (kiimii ʼaasiit), ទឹក អាស៊ីត (tɨk ʼaasiit)
Korean: 산(酸) (ko) (san)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: tirşe (ku)
Kyrgyz: кислота (ky) (kislota)
Lao: ກົດ (lo) (kot), ອາຊິດ (ʼā sit)
Latin: acidum (la) n
Latvian: skābe (lv) f
Lithuanian: rūgštis (lt) f
Luxembourgish: Saier (lb) f
Macedonian: киселина (mk) f (kiselina)
Malay: asid (ms), asam (ms)
Malayalam: അമ്ലം (ml) (amlaṁ)
Māori: waikawa, kawa (mi), atiti
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: хүчил (mn) (xüčil)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: syre (no) m or f

Nynorsk: syre f
Odia: ଅମ୍ଳ (amḷa)
Pashto: تېزاب (ps) m (tezāb), زونځه f (zonjá), اسيډ (ps) m (asiḍ)
Persian:
Dari: تیزَاب (tēzāb)

Iranian Persian: اَسید (asid)
Polish: kwas (pl) m inan
Portuguese: ácido (pt) m
Romanian: acid (ro) m
Russian: кислота́ (ru) f (kislotá)
Sanskrit: अम्ल (sa) n (amla), आम्ल (sa) n (āmla)
Scottish Gaelic: searbhag f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: киселѝна f

Latin: kiselìna (sh) f
Slovak: kyselina (sk) f
Slovene: kislina (sl) f
Spanish: ácido (es) m
Swedish: syra (sv) c
Tagalog: asido (tl)
Tajik: кислота (kislota), ҳомуз (homuz)
Telugu: ఆమ్లము (te) (āmlamu)
Thai: กรด (th) (gròt)
Tibetan: སྐྱུར་རྫས (skyur rdzas)
Turkish: asit (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: اكشی (ekşi), حامض (hamız)
Turkmen: kislota
Ukrainian: кислота́ (uk) f (kyslotá)
Urdu: تیزاب m (tezāb), حَمْض (ur) m (hamz), تُرْشَہ m (turśa), ایسِڈ ? (esiḍ)
Uyghur: كىسلاتا (kislata)
Uzbek: kislota (uz)
Vietnamese: axit (vi), axít (vi), a-xít (vi)
Volapük: züd (vo)
Welsh: asid (cy) m
Yoruba: ásíìdì

LSD

Catalan: àcid (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 麥角酸二乙醯胺 / 麦角酸二乙醯胺
Danish: syre (da) c
Dutch: lsd (nl) m or f or n
Esperanto: acido (eo)
Estonian: hape
Finnish: happo (fi)
French: acide (fr) m or f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
Icelandic: sýra (is) f
Italian: acido (it) m, acido lisergico m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: syre (no) m or f

Nynorsk: syre f
Polish: kwas (pl) m inan
Portuguese: ácido (pt) m
Romanian: acid (ro) m
Russian: кислота́ (ru) f (kislotá)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: есид m

Latin: esid m
Swedish: acid (sv), syra (sv) c

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Albanian: ^{(please verify)} acidi (sq)
Arabic: ^{(please verify)} حٰمْض m (ḥāmḍ)
Ido: ^{(please verify)} acido (io)
Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} asam (id)
Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} acido
Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} rūgštus m

References

“acid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

-adic, Daic, adic, cadi, caid

Albanian

Albanian Wikipedia has an article on:

acid

Wikipedia ^sq

Noun

acid m (plural acide, definite acidi, definite plural acidet)

(chemistry) acid
Synonym: thartor

Declension

Declension of **acid**
	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	acid	acidi	acide	acidet
accusative	acid	acidin	acide	acidet
dative	acidi	acidit	acideve	acideve
ablative	acidi	acidit	acidesh	acideve

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English acid.

Attested since at least 1970.

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

Noun

acid m (uncountable, no diminutive)

(slang) LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide
Synonym: LSD
(music) acid

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French acide, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [aˈt͡ʃid]

Adjective

acid m or n (feminine singular acidă, masculine plural acizi, feminine/neuter plural acide)

acid, acidic

Declension

Declension of *acid*
		masculine	feminine	masculine	neuter
		singular		plural
nominative- accusative	indefinite	acid	acidă	acizi	acide
nominative- accusative	definite	acidul	acida	acizii	acidele
genitive- dative	indefinite	acid	acide	acizi	acide
genitive- dative	definite	acidului	acidei	acizilor	acidelor

Related terms

aciditate

Noun

acid m (plural acizi)

acid

Declension

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
	singular		plural
nominative-accusative	acid	acidul	acizi	acizii
genitive-dative	acid	acidului	acizi	acizilor
vocative	acidule		acizilor

Derived terms

acid dezoxiribonucleic

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈaθid/ [ˈa.θið̞] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
IPA^(key): /ˈasid/ [ˈa.sið̞] (Latin America, Philippines)
Rhymes: -aθid (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
Rhymes: -asid (Latin America, Philippines)
Syllabification: a‧cid

Adjective

acid (invariable)

(music) acid

Noun

acid m (uncountable)

(music) acid

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Albanian

Noun

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Dutch

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Noun

Romanian

Etymology

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Adjective

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Noun

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