tannin

See also: Tannin

English

Etymology 1

From French tannin, from Latin tannum (“oak bark”), from Gaulish *tannos (“oak”). Related to tan. By surface analysis, tann- +‎ -in.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtænɪn/

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• Rhymes: -ænɪn

Noun

tannin (plural tannins)

1. (chemistry) Tannic acid or any of its derivatives.
   • 1847, editorial staff, “Preserving Animal Substances”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 10, page 80:

     Various substances act by entering into combination, and the divellent tendencies of the affinities of the constituents of those substances are overcome, among those are corrosive sublimate, copperas, tannin, wood, vinegar and creosotte.

Synonyms

• E181 when used as a food colouring

Derived terms

• Aleppo tannin
• chrysotannin
• ellagitannin
• gallotannin
• hamamelitannin
• iodotannin
• nontannin
• pseudotannin
• tanniferous
• tannigen
• tannined
• tanniniferous
• tanninlike
• tannoform

Translations

tannic acid

• Bulgarian: тани́н m (tanín)
• Catalan: taní m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: tanin m
• Danish: tannin
• Esperanto: tanino (eo)
• Finnish: tanniini (fi)
• 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)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hebrew תַּנִּין (tannīn).

Noun

tannin (plural tannins or tanninim)

1. (mythology) An evil sea monster in Canaanite and Hebrew mythology.

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 [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “tannin”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “tannin”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)