electronic

See also: electrònic

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor.

Latin ēlectrum

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icus

New Latin ēlectricusbor.

English electric

Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey-

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti

Proto-Hellenic *éimi

Ancient Greek ἰόν (ión)der.

English ion

blend

English electron

▲

Latin -icuslbor.

Old French -iquebor.

▲

Latin -icusbor.

Middle English -ik

English -ic

English electronic

From electron + -ic.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɛl.ɛkˈtɹɒn.ɪk/, /ˌɛl.ɪkˈtɹɒn.ɪk/, /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɒn.ɪk/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɑ.nɪk/, /ˌi.lɛkˈtɹɑ.nɪk/, /əˌlɪkˈtɹɑ.nɪk/, /əˌlɛkˈtɹɑ.nɪk/

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• Rhymes: -ɒnɪk

Adjective

electronic (not comparable)

1. (physics, chemistry) Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons.
2. Operating on the physical behavior of electrons, especially in semiconductors.

   electronic timer

3. Generated or transmitted by an electronic device.

   electronic music

4. Of or pertaining to digital or computer technology.
5. Denoting a method analogous to the named non-electronic object or practice

   electronic mail

   electronic signature

6. Of or pertaining to the Internet.
   • 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 407, number 8837, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 October 2017, page 74:

     In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.

Derived terms

English terms starting with “electronic”

• bioelectronic
• bionic
• cryoelectronic
• cybertronic
• dielectronic
• digitron
• [[:ecycle

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  acoustoelectronic]]
• electronically
• electronic babysitter
• electronic benefit transfer
• electronic body music
• electronic book
• electronic brain
• electronic calculator
• electronic car key
• electronic cigar
• electronic cigarette
• electronic circuit
• electronic collar
• electronic commerce
• electronic communication
• electronic computer
• electronic cottage
• electronic dance music
• electronic data interchange
• electronic document
• electronic flight bag
• electronic fog
• electronic game
• electronic intelligence
• electronicist
• electronic keyboard
• electronicky
• electronic mail
• electronic media
• electronic music
• electronic organ
• electronic paper
• electronic picking
• electronic publishing
• electronic resource
• electronic rock
• electronic sackbut
• electronic signature
• electronic smog
• electronic sport
• electronic stability control
• electronic superhighway
• electronification
• electronified
• electronify
• ELINT
• emotronic
• heatronic
• immunoelectronic
• interelectronic
• isoelectronic
• magnetoelectronic
• microelectronic
• monoelectronic
• morphoelectronic
• multielectronic
• nanoelectronic
• neuroelectronic
• neurotronic
• nonelectronic
• optoelectronic
• optronic
• photoelectronic
• piezoelectronic
• polyelectronic
• postelectronic
• preelectronic
• psychoelectronic
• quadruelectronic
• quantized electronic structure
• radioelectronic
• rocktronic
• spintronic
• stereoelectronic
• technetronic
• thermoelectronic
• topotronic
• trielectronic
• unelectronic
• unielectronic
• vibronic

Related terms

• electric
• electrical

Translations

pertaining to electrons

• Afrikaans: elektroniese
• Albanian: elektronik (sq)
• Arabic: إِلِكْتْرُونِي (ʔiliktrōniyy), إِلِكْتْرُونِيّ (ʔelektrōniyy)
• Belarusian: электро́нны (eljektrónny)
• Bulgarian: електро́нен (bg) (elektrónen)
• Catalan: electrònic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電子的 / 电子的 (zh) (diànzǐ de)

• Czech: elektronový
• Danish: elektronisk (da)
• Dutch: elektronen-
• Esperanto: elektronika
• Finnish: elektroni-
• French: électronique (fr)
• Galician: electrónico (gl) m
• German: elektronisch (de)
• Greek: ηλεκτρονιακός (el) (ilektroniakós)
• Hebrew: אלקטרוני (he) (elektróni)
• Ido: elektronala (io)
• Indonesian: elektronik (id)
• Italian: elettronico (it)
• Japanese: 電子 (ja) (でんし, denshi)
• Kazakh: электрондық (èlektrondıq)
• Khmer: អសន្យាណូ (ʼaʼsɑnyaanou)
• Korean: 전자 (ko) (jeonja)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئەلیکترۆنی (elîktronî)

• Latvian: elektronisks
• Lithuanian: elektroninis (lt)
• Macedonian: електронски (elektronski)
• Māori: tāhiko
• Norwegian: elektronisk (no)
• Persian: الکترونی (fa) (elekteroni)
• Plautdietsch: ellektronisch
• Polish: elektronowy (pl)
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian Portuguese: eletrônico (pt)

  European Portuguese: eletrónico (pt)

• Romanian: electronic (ro)
• Russian: электро́нный (ru) (elektrónnyj)
• Sicilian: alittrònicu
• Spanish: electrónico (es)
• Swedish: elektron-
• Tagalog: dagisikin
• Tajik: электронӣ (elektroni)
• Turkish: elektronik (tr)
• Ukrainian: електро́нний (elektrónnyj)

operating on behavior of electrons

• Belarusian: электро́нны (eljektrónny)
• Bulgarian: електро́нен (bg) (elektrónen)
• Catalan: electrònic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電子的 / 电子的 (zh) (diànzǐ de)

• Czech: elektronový
• Danish: elektronisk (da)
• Dutch: elektronisch (nl)
• Estonian: elektrooniline
• Finnish: elektroninen (fi), sähköinen (fi)
• French: électronique (fr)
• Galician: electrónico (gl) m
• German: elektronisch (de)
• Greek: ηλεκτρονικός (el) (ilektronikós)
• Interlingua: electronic
• Italian: elettronico (it)
• Kazakh: электрондық (èlektrondıq)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئەلیکترۆنی (elîktronî)

• Macedonian: електронски (elektronski)
• Māori: tāhiko
• Plautdietsch: ellektronisch
• Polish: elektroniczny (pl)
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian Portuguese: eletrônico (pt)

  European Portuguese: eletrónico (pt)

• Russian: электро́нный (ru) (elektrónnyj)
• Sicilian: alittrònicu
• Spanish: electrónico (es)
• Swahili: -a elektroniki (sw)
• Swedish: elektronisk (sv)
• Tagalog: dagisikin
• Ukrainian: електро́нний (elektrónnyj)

generated by electronic device

• Afrikaans: elektronies
• Albanian: elektronik (sq)
• Belarusian: электро́нны (eljektrónny)
• Bulgarian: електро́нен (bg) (elektrónen)
• Catalan: electrònic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 電子 / 电子 (din⁶ zi²)

  Mandarin: 電子的 / 电子的 (zh) (diànzǐ de)

• Czech: elektronický (cs)
• Dutch: elektronisch (nl)
• Estonian: elektrooniline
• Finnish: sähköinen (fi), sähköiset pl
• French: électronique (fr)
• Galician: electrónico (gl) m
• German: elektronisch (de)
• Greek: ηλεκτρονικός (el) (ilektronikós)
• Hungarian: elektronikus (hu)
• Ido: elektronika (io)
• Indonesian: elektronik (id)
• Italian: elettronico (it)
• Japanese: 電子 (ja) (denshi)
• Kazakh: электрондық (èlektrondıq)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئەلیکترۆنی (elîktronî)

• Latin: electronicus
• Macedonian: електронски (elektronski)
• Māori: tāhiko, tāhiko
• Plautdietsch: ellektronisch
• Polish: elektroniczny (pl)
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian Portuguese: eletrônico (pt)

  European Portuguese: eletrónico (pt)

• Romanian: electronic (ro)
• Russian: электро́нный (ru) (elektrónnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: dealanach, dealain
• Sicilian: alittrònicu
• Swahili: -a elektroniki (sw)
• Swedish: elektronisk (sv)
• Tagalog: dagisikin
• Ukrainian: електро́нний (elektrónnyj)

of or pertaining to the Internet

• Afrikaans: elektroniese
• Arabic: إِلِكْتْرُونِيّ (ʔelektrōniyy), إِلِكْتْرُونِيّ (ʔiliktrōniyy)
• Belarusian: электро́нны (eljektrónny)
• Bulgarian: електро́нен (bg) (elektrónen)
• Catalan: electrònic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電子的 / 电子的 (zh) (diànzǐ de), 網絡的 / 网络的 (zh) (wǎngluò de)

• Czech: elektronický (cs), internetový (cs)
• Dutch: virtueel (nl), web-
• Finnish: sähköinen (fi)
• French: électronique (fr)
• Galician: electrónico (gl) m
• German: elektronisch (de)
• Hungarian: elektronikus (hu), internetes (hu), online (hu)
• Japanese: 電子 (ja) (denshi), 電脳 (ja) (dennō)
• Kazakh: электрондық (èlektrondıq)
• Macedonian: електронски (elektronski)
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian Portuguese: eletrônico (pt)

  European Portuguese: eletrónico (pt)

• Romanian: de Internet, electronic (ro)
• Russian: электро́нный (ru) (elektrónnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: dealanach, dealain
• Sicilian: alittrònicu
• Spanish: electrónico (es)
• Swahili: -a elektroniki (sw)
• Ukrainian: електро́нний (elektrónnyj)

Noun

electronic (plural electronics)

1. A device which runs on electricity.

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.lekˈtɾo.nik/

Adjective

electronic (not comparable)

1. electronic

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor.

Latin ēlectrum

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icus

New Latin ēlectricusbor.

English electric

Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey-

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti

Proto-Hellenic *éimi

Ancient Greek ἰόν (ión)der.

English ion

blend

English electron

▲

Latin -icuslbor.

Old French -iquebor.

▲

Latin -icusbor.

Middle English -ik

English -ic

English electronicbor.

French électroniquebor.

Romanian electronic

Borrowed from French électronique. By surface analysis, electron + -ic.

Adjective

electronic m or n (feminine singular electronică, masculine plural electronici, feminine/neuter plural electronice)

1. electronic

Declension

Declension of electronic

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	electronic		electronică	electronici	electronice
	definite	electronicul		electronica	electronicii	electronicele
genitive- dative	indefinite	electronic		electronice	electronici	electronice
	definite	electronicului		electronicei	electronicilor	electronicelor