The story
- French · derived fromacétone“acetone”
- German · borrowed fromKeton
- English todayketone
From German Keton, from Aketon (“acetone”), from French acétone (“acetone”). See acetone.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
ketone
Today it means: A homologous series of organic molecules whose functional group is an oxygen atom joined to a carbon atom—by a double bond—in a carbon-hydrogen based molecule. Full definition →
German Keton ← French acétone