Meanings
plural turpentines
- countableuncountableAny oleoresin secreted by the wood or bark of certain trees.
- countableuncountableA volatile essential oil now obtained from such oleoresin of from the wood of pine trees by steam distillation; a complex mixture of monoterpenes; now used as a solvent and paint thinner.
Synonyms: spirit of turpentine, spirits of turpentine, oil of turpentine, terebenthene, terebinthine, turps, tarpin
- AustraliacountableuncountableA turpentine tree (genus Syncarpia).
Turpentine timber was obtained from the forests outside Maryborough and Townsville, and shipped by rail and landing craft to Hayman Island.
1954 March, “The Hayman Island Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 207
present singular third person turpentines · participle present turpentining · participle past turpentined · past turpentined
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA volatile essential oil now obtained from such oleoresin of from the wood of pine trees by steam distillation; a complex mixture of monoterpenes; now used as a solvent and paint thinner.
More synonyms by meaning
nounvolatile liquid distilled from turpentine oleoresin; used as paint thinner and solvent and medicinally
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Ancient Greekτερεβινθίνη
- Latinterebinthina
- Old Frenchterbentine
- Middle Englishterebentyne
- Englishturpentine
From Middle English terebentyne, terbentyne, turbentine, from Old French terbentine, turbentine, Latin terebinthina, from Ancient Greek τερεβινθίνη (terebinthínē), the feminine form of τερεβινθινος (terebinthinos, “terebinthine”, adjective), from τερέβινθος (terébinthos, “terebinth tree”, noun). Related to terpene and terpin; etymologically equivalent to terebinth + -ine.
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Arabic تِرْبَنْتِين, نَفْط
- تِرْبَنْتِين (tirbantīn)volatile essential oil
- نَفْط (nafṭ)volatile essential oil
Bengali তার্পিন
- তার্পিন (tarpin)volatile essential oil
Bulgarian терпенти́н
- терпенти́н (terpentín)volatile essential oil
Catalan aiguarràs
- aiguarràsvolatile essential oil
Chinese Mandarin 松節油 /松节油
- 松節油 /松节油 (sōngjiéyóu)volatile essential oil
Czech terpentýn
- terpentýnvolatile essential oil
Danish terpentin
- terpentinvolatile essential oil
Dutch terpentijn
- terpentijnvolatile essential oil
Esperanto terebinto
- terebintovolatile essential oil
Estonian tärpentin, tärpentiin
- tärpentinvolatile essential oil
- tärpentiinvolatile essential oil
Finnish tärpätti
- tärpättivolatile essential oil
French essence de térébenthine, térébenthine
- essence de térébenthinevolatile essential oil
- térébenthinevolatile essential oil
German Terpentin
- Terpentinvolatile essential oil
Greek τερεβινθίνη, τερεβινθέλαιο
- τερεβινθίνη (terevinthíni)volatile essential oil
- τερεβινθέλαιο (terevinthélaio)volatile essential oil
- νέφτι (néfti)volatile essential oil
Hawaiian kapenekine
- kapenekinevolatile essential oil
Hebrew טֶרפָּנטִין
- טֶרפָּנטִין (terpantín)volatile essential oil
Hindi तारपीन
- तारपीन (tārpīn)volatile essential oil
Hungarian terpentin
- terpentinvolatile essential oil
Icelandic terpentína
- terpentínavolatile essential oil
Indonesian terpentin
- terpentinvolatile essential oil
Irish tuirpintín, ola bhí
- tuirpintínvolatile essential oil
- ola bhívolatile essential oil
- ola thuirpintínvolatile essential oil
Italian acquaragia, trementina
- acquaragiavolatile essential oil
- trementinavolatile essential oil
- essenza di trementinavolatile essential oil
Japanese テレビン油, 松脂油
- テレビン油 (terebin'yu)volatile essential oil
- 松脂油 (matsuyaniabura)volatile essential oil
Korean 테레빈유, 투르펜틴
- 테레빈유 (terebinyu)volatile essential oil
- 투르펜틴 (tureupentin)volatile essential oil
- 송지유 (songjiyu)volatile essential oil
Latvian terpentīns
- terpentīnsvolatile essential oil
Lithuanian terpentinas
- terpentinasvolatile essential oil
Malay turpentin
- turpentinvolatile essential oil
Māori hinu paina
- hinu painavolatile essential oil
Norwegian Bokmål terpentin
- terpentinvolatile essential oil
Persian تِرِبانْتین
- تِرِبانْتین (terebântin)volatile essential oil
Polish terpentyna
- terpentynavolatile essential oil
Portuguese aguarrás, terebintina
- aguarrásvolatile essential oil
- terebintinavolatile essential oil
Punjabi ਤਾਰਪੀਨ
- ਤਾਰਪੀਨ (tārpīn)volatile essential oil
Romanian terebentină
- terebentinăvolatile essential oil
Russian скипида́р, терпенти́н
- скипида́р (skipidár)volatile essential oil
- терпенти́н (terpentín)volatile essential oil
Slovak terpentín
- terpentínvolatile essential oil
Spanish aguarrás, trementina
- aguarrásvolatile essential oil
- trementinavolatile essential oil
Swahili terafini
- terafinivolatile essential oil
Swedish terpentin
- terpentinvolatile essential oil
Tagalog agwaras, lunay
- agwarasvolatile essential oil
- lunayvolatile essential oil
- turpentaynvolatile essential oil
Thai น้ำมันสน
- น้ำมันสน (nám-man-sǒn)volatile essential oil
Turkish terebentin, terementi
- terebentinvolatile essential oil
- terementivolatile essential oil
- terementinvolatile essential oil
Ukrainian скипида́р, шпиґина́р
- скипида́р (skypydár)volatile essential oil
- шпиґина́р (špygynár)volatile essential oil
- шпигина́р (špyhynár)volatile essential oil
- терпенти́на (terpentýna)volatile essential oil
Urdu تارپِین
- تارپِین (tārpīn)volatile essential oil
Vietnamese nhựa thông
- nhựa thôngvolatile essential oil
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with turpentine
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