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- Latin · derived from-ānus
- English today-ane
From Latin -ānus, which forms adjectives from nouns with the sense of "belonging to" or "origin from". Doublet of English -an.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A saturated hydrocarbon; an alkane. Full definition →
From Latin -ānus, which forms adjectives from nouns with the sense of "belonging to" or "origin from". Doublet of English -an.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.