Origin

from New Latin -uretum

-uret

Word Origin

a suffix used in chemical terminology, identical in sense with -ide, which has now generally replaced it: carburet (now carbide); phosphuret (now phosphide).

Origin

< New Latin -urētum, -ōrētum, of uncertain origin

Related Words

arseniuretted
biuret
carburet
phosphureted
sulfuret

-ureta noun suffix in names of some chemical compounds, having the same force as -ide, as in arseniuret.

[New Latin -urētum]

-uret Chem.,|jʊərɛt|a suffix, ad. mod.L. -urētum, -orētum, added to a stem or truncated word to form names of simple compounds of an element with another element or a radical. First used (after F. words in -ure) about 1790 in azoturet, hydruret, phosphuret, sulphuret (from azote, hydr-ogen, phosph-ure, sulph-ure), it was extended to other terms, as carburet, nitruret (1794), ioduret (1816), seleniuret (1818), and (more recently) arseniuret, bromuret, chloruret, cyanuret, floruret, hydroguret, telluret, etc. It is now largely replaced by -ide, q.v.The French school of chemists in 1787 proposed the suffix -urētum, -orētum, in mod.L. terms (as phosphorētum, sulphurētum); but in F. words they preferred the suffix -ure (1787 De Morveau, etc. Méthode de Nomenclature Chimique 207, 231, etc.).

-uret /jʊərɛt/ suffix (no longer productive).

ORIGIN: Modern Latin -uretum, -oretum.

Chemistry. Forming names of simple compounds of an element with another element or a radical, as carburet, sulphuret, etc. Cf. biuret.

NOTE Now replaced by -ide.

-u·ret
\(y)ə|re]t, usu ]d.+V; in “carburet” often -rā]\ noun combining form
(-s)
Etymology: New Latin -uretum, from French -ure, from Latin -ur (in sulfur)
: -ide 1
< carburet >
< biuret >

-uret

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Suffix

obsolete, chemistry -ide

词汇	-uret
词根词缀	Collins Dictionary.com Macquarie OED SOED Webster Wiktionary -uret suffix formerly used to form the names of binary chemical compounds Origin from New Latin -uretum -uret Word Origin 1 a suffix used in chemical terminology, identical in sense with -ide, which has now generally replaced it: carburet (now carbide); phosphuret (now phosphide). Origin < New Latin -urētum, -ōrētum, of uncertain origin Related Words arseniuretted biuret carburet phosphureted sulfuret -ureta noun suffix in names of some chemical compounds, having the same force as -ide, as in arseniuret. [New Latin -urētum] -uret Chem.,\|jʊərɛt\|a suffix, ad. mod.L. -urētum, -orētum, added to a stem or truncated word to form names of simple compounds of an element with another element or a radical. First used (after F. words in -ure) about 1790 in azoturet, hydruret, phosphuret, sulphuret (from azote, hydr-ogen, phosph-ure, sulph-ure), it was extended to other terms, as carburet, nitruret (1794), ioduret (1816), seleniuret (1818), and (more recently) arseniuret, bromuret, chloruret, cyanuret, floruret, hydroguret, telluret, etc. It is now largely replaced by -ide, q.v.The French school of chemists in 1787 proposed the suffix -urētum, -orētum, in mod.L. terms (as phosphorētum, sulphurētum); but in F. words they preferred the suffix -ure (1787 De Morveau, etc. Méthode de Nomenclature Chimique 207, 231, etc.). -uret /jʊərɛt/ suffix (no longer productive). ORIGIN: Modern Latin -uretum, -oretum. Chemistry. Forming names of simple compounds of an element with another element or a radical, as carburet, sulphuret, etc. Cf. biuret. NOTE Now replaced by -ide. -u·ret \(y)ə\|re]t, usu ]d.+V; in “carburet” often -rā]\ noun combining form (-s) Etymology: New Latin -uretum, from French -ure, from Latin -ur (in sulfur) : -ide 1 < carburet > < biuret > -uret Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. Suffix obsolete, chemistry -ide
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