proton

See also Proton, and protón

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πρῶτον (prōton), neuter of πρῶτος (prōtos, “first”)

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈprəʊ.tɒn/
• (US) IPA: /ˈproʊ.tɑːn/
• Hyphenation: pro‧ton

Noun

proton (plural protons)

1. (physics) positively charged subatomic particle forming part of the nucleus of an atom and determining the atomic number of an element; the nucleus of the most common isotope of hydrogen; composed of two up quarks and a down quark

Synonyms

• p (symbolic)

Hypernyms

• nucleon

Translations

positively charged nucleon

• Albanian: proton (sq) m
• Arabic: بروتون (ar) (brutuun) m
• Armenian: պրոտոն (hy) (proton)
• Basque: protoi (eu)
• Bengali: প্রোটন (bn) (proţôn)
• Breton: proton (collective noun), protonenn (singular f)
• Bulgarian: протон (bg) (protón) m
• Catalan: protó
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 質子, 质子 (jat1 ji2)

  Mandarin: 質子 (cmn), 质子 (cmn) (zhìzǐ)

• Czech: proton (cs) m
• Danish: proton (da)
• Dutch: proton (nl) n
• Esperanto: protono (eo)
• Finnish: protoni (fi)
• French: proton (fr) m
• Galician: protón (gl) m
• German: Proton (de) n
• Greek: πρωτόνιο (el) (protónio) n
• Hindi: प्रोटॉन (hi) (proṭon)
• Hungarian: proton (hu)
• Icelandic: róteind (is) f
• Ido: protono (io)
• Indonesian: proton (id)

• Interlingua: proton
• Irish: prótón (ga) m
• Italian: protone (it)
• Japanese: 陽子 (ja) (ようし, yōshi)
• Khmer: មូលាណូ (km) (moul la no), ប្រូតុង (km) (bro tong)
• Korean: 양자 (ko) (yangja) (陽子 (ko)), 양성자 (ko) (yangseongja) (陽性子 (ko))
• Latin: proton, protonis
• Latvian: protons (lv) m
• Malay: proton (ms)
• Norwegian: proton (no)
• Persian: پروتون (fa) (prutun)
• Polish: proton (pl) m
• Portuguese: próton (pt) m
• Romanian: proton (ro) m
• Russian: протон (ru) (protón) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: про̀то̄н (sh) m

  Roman: pròtōn (sh) m

• Spanish: protón (es)
• Swedish: proton (sv) c
• Turkish: proton (tr)
• Vietnamese: proton (vi)

See also

• neutron
• electron
• deuteron
• triton

Anagrams

• pronto

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Afrikaans

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Noun

proton (plural protone)

1. (physics) proton

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Czech

Noun

proton m

1. proton

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Dutch

Wikipedia ^nl

Noun

proton n (plural protonen)

1. (physics) proton

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French

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Pronunciation

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Noun

proton m

1. (physics) proton

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Latin

Noun

Wikipedia ^la

proton (genitive protōnis); n, third declension

1. (physics) proton

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	proton	protōnēs
genitive	protōnis	protōnum
dative	protōnī	protōnibus
accusative	protōnem	protōnēs
ablative	protōne	protōnibus
vocative	proton	protōnēs

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Norwegian

Wikipedia ^no

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Noun

proton

1. (physics) proton

Inflection

    Inflection of proton

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål n	proton	protonet	proton/protoner	protona/protonene
Nynorsk n	proton	protonet	proton	protona [protoni]

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈprɔt̪ɔn̪/

Noun

proton m

1. (physics) proton

Declension

    declension of proton

	singular	plural
nominative	proton	protony
genitive	protonu	protonów
dative	protonowi	protonom
accusative	proton	protony
instrumental	protonem	protonami
locative	protonie	protonach
vocative	protonie	protony

Derived terms

• protonowy

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

pròtōn m (Cyrillic spelling про̀то̄н)

1. proton

Declension

    declension of proton

	singular	plural
nominative	pròtōn	protoni
genitive	protóna	protona
dative	protonu	protonima
accusative	proton	protone
vocative	protone	protoni
locative	protonu	protonima
instrumental	protonom	protonima

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Swedish

Wikipedia ^sv

Pronunciation

• IPA: /prʊˈtoːn/

Noun

proton c

1. (physics) proton

Declension

Declension of proton

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	proton	protonen	protoner	protonerna
genitive	protons	protonens	protoners	protonernas

See also

• neutron
• elektron