tannin

See also: Tannin

English

Etymology

From French tannin, from Latin tannum (“oak bark”), from Gaulish *tannos (“oak”). Related to tan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtænɪn/

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• Rhymes: -ænɪn

Noun

tannin (plural tannins)

1. (chemistry) Tannic acid or any of its derivatives.

Synonyms

• E181 when used as a food colouring

Translations

tannic acid

• Bulgarian: танин (tanin)
• Catalan: taní m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 单宁 (zh) (dānníng), 鞣酸 (zh) (róusuān)

• Czech: tanin m
• Danish: tannin
• Esperanto: tanino (eo)
• Finnish: tanniini
• French: tanin (fr) m
• Galician: tanino m
• German: Tannin (de) n
• Hungarian: csersav (hu)
• Ido: tanino (io)
• Italian: tannino (it) m
• Persian: تنین (fa) (tanin), تانن (tânan)
• Polish: tanina (pl) f
• Portuguese: tanino (pt) m
• Russian: танин (ru) m (tanin)
• Spanish: tanino (es) m
• Turkish: tanen (tr)
• Ukrainian: танін m (tanin)

French

Noun

tannin m (plural tannins)

1. Alternative spelling of tanin

Further reading

• “tannin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French tanin.

Noun

tannin n

1. tannin

Declension

Declension of tannin

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	tannin	tannins
	definite	tanninet	tanninets
plural	indefinite	tanniner	tanniners
	definite	tanninerna	tanninernas

References

• tannin in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tannin in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tannin in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)