-yl

See also: yl, Yl, YL, and yl-

English

Etymology

Via French méthylène from Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “wood, material”).

Suffix

-yl

1. (organic chemistry) A univalent radical or functional group formed from a given molecule. Thus propyl from propane, benzyl from benzene, and so forth.

Derived terms

• -enyl
• -ylidene
• -ynyl

 

English terms suffixed with -yl

Translations

radical or functional group

• Finnish: -yyli
• German: -yl (de)
• Hindi: -ल (-l)
• Italian: -ile (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: -yl (no)

• Portuguese: -ilo m, -ila f
• Russian: -ил (ru) m (-il)
• Spanish: -ila f
• Swedish: -yl

Anagrams

• -ly, LY, Ly, Ly-α, ly, ly-

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Suffix

-yl

1. (organic chemistry) -yl

Derived terms

Dutch terms suffixed with -yl

Related terms

• -aan
• alkyl
• -een
• -yn

 

Middle English

Suffix

-yl

1. Alternative form of -el (“agentive suffix”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

A new formation from Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “wood, forest; material, matter”), from Proto-Indo-European *swel-, *sel- (“firewood, wood, beam”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /yːl/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -yːl
• Hyphenation: -yl

Suffix

-yl (definite singular neuter -ylet, definite singular masculine -ylen, indefinite plural -yl or -yler, definite plural -ylene or -yla)

2. (organic chemistry) Used to form nouns denoting chemical compounds; -yl

   acetyl, akryl, etyl, fenyl, salisyl ― acetyl, acryl, ethyl, phenyl, salicyl

References

• “-yl” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).