reactant

See also: réactant

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *wre-

Latin re-

Old French re-bor.

Middle English re-

English re-

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti

Proto-Italic *agō

Latin agō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tos

Latin -tus

Latin āctus

Latin ācta

Old French actbor.

Middle English acte

English act

English react

Proto-Indo-European *-onts

Latin -ns

Latin -āns

Old French -antbor.

Proto-Indo-European *-onts

Proto-Germanic *-andz

Proto-West Germanic *-andī

Old English -ende

Middle English -ant

English -ant

English reactant

From react + -ant.

Pronunciation

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Noun

reactant (plural reactants)

1. (chemistry) Any of the participants present at the start of a chemical reaction, specifically one that is consumed during the reaction.

   Hypernym: reagent

Derived terms

• coreactant
• immunoreactant

Translations

participant at the start of a chemical reaction

• Bulgarian: реагент m (reagent)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 反應物 / 反应物 (zh) (fǎnyìngwù)

• Finnish: reaktantti (fi), lähtöaine (fi)
• French: réactif (fr) m
• German: Reaktant m, Edukt (de) n, Reagenz (de) n
• Hebrew: מֵגִיב m (megív)
• Hindi: अभिकारक m (abhikārak)
• Japanese: 試薬 (ja) (しやく, shiyaku), 試剤 (しざい, shizai)
• Khmer: ប្រតិករ (praʼtekɑɑ)
• Māori: pūmatū hohe, pūmatūhope
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: reaktant (no) m

  Nynorsk: reaktant m or n

• Romanian: reactiv (ro) m, reactant (ro) m
• Russian: реаге́нт (ru) m (reagént), реакти́в (ru) m (reaktív)
• Serbo-Croatian: reaktant (sh) m
• Spanish: reactivo (es) m
• Tagalog: kabalibilos

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *wre-

Latin re-

Old French re-bor.

Middle English re-

English re-

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti

Proto-Italic *agō

Latin agō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tos

Latin -tus

Latin āctus

Latin ācta

Old French actbor.

Middle English acte

English act

English react

Proto-Indo-European *-onts

Latin -ns

Latin -āns

Old French -antbor.

Proto-Indo-European *-onts

Proto-Germanic *-andz

Proto-West Germanic *-andī

Old English -ende

Middle English -ant

English -ant

English reactantbor.

Romanian reactant

Borrowed from English reactant.

Noun

reactant m (plural reactanți)

1. reactant

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	reactant	reactantul	reactanți	reactanții
genitive-dative	reactant	reactantului	reactanți	reactanților
vocative	reactantule		reactanților