lipid

See also: Lipid and lípid

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French lipide, coined 1923 by Gabriel Bertrand from Ancient Greek λῐ́πος (lĭ́pos, “animal fat”) + French -ide.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪpɪd/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪpɪd

Noun

lipid (plural lipids)

1. (organic chemistry) Any of a group of organic compounds including the fats, oils, waxes, sterols, and triglycerides. Lipids are characterized by being insoluble in water, and account for most of the fat present in the human body.
   • 2009, Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood, Virago Press (2020), page 384:

     Without lipids your body eats your fat and then your muscles, and the brain is pure fat and the heart is a muscle. You become a feedback loop, and then you fall over.

Derived terms

• aminolipid
• antilipid
• archaeolipid
• arsenolipid
• bilipid
• biolipid
• chlorolipid
• chlorosulfolipid
• chromolipid
• cyanolipid
• delipidize
• dyslipidemia
• epoxylipid
• exolipid
• galactolipid
• geolipid
• glucolipid
• glycerolipid
• glycerophospholipid
• glycolipid
• glycopeptidolipid
• glycosyllipid
• guggulipid
• heterolipid
• hydrolipid
• hyperlipidemia
• hypolipidemia
• intralipid
• lipidaceous
• lipidated
• lipidation
• lipidemia
• lipidic
• lipidized
• lipidogenic
• lipidogram
• lipidoid
• lipidology
• lipidolysis
• lipidome
• lipidomics
• lipidopathy
• lipidophilic
• lipidosis
• lipidostasis
• lipiduria
• lipoplatin
• lysolipid
• mycolipid
• nitrolipid
• nonlipid
• nucleolipid
• oncolipid
• phosphoglycerolipid
• phospholipid
• phytolipid
• proteolipid
• reinforced lipid
• saccharolipid
• sulfolipid
• sulpholipid

Descendants

• → Malay: lipid

Translations

organic compound

• Arabic: لِيبِيد m (lībīd), لِيبِيد m (libid), دُهْنِيَّة f (duhniyya)
• Catalan: lípid m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 脂類 / 脂类 (zi¹ leoi⁶), 脂質 / 脂质 (zi¹ zat¹)

  Mandarin: 脂類 / 脂类 (zhīlèi), 脂質 / 脂质 (zh) (zhīzhì, zhīzhí)

• Czech: lipid (cs) m
• Danish: lipid n
• Dutch: lipide (nl)
• Esperanto: lipido
• Estonian: lipiid, rasv (et)
• Finnish: lipidi (fi)
• French: lipide (fr) m
• German: Lipid (de) n
• Hungarian: lipid (hu)
• Icelandic: lípíð n
• Ido: lipido (io)
• Indonesian: lipida
• Irish: lipid f
• Italian: lipide (it)
• Japanese: 脂質 (ja) (ししつ, shishitsu), リピド (ripido)
• Khmer: តេលិកា (teeli’kaa), លីពីត (liipiit)
• Korean: 지질(脂質) (ko) (jijil)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: çewrî (ku) f, lîpîd f

• Malay: lipid
• Maori: ngako
• Polish: lipid (pl) m, lipoid m
• Portuguese: lípido m (Portugal), lipídio (pt) m (Brazil)
• Russian: липи́д (ru) m (lipíd)
• Spanish: lípido (es) m
• Swedish: lipid (sv)
• Tok Pisin: gris

Anagrams

• pilid

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɪpɪt]

Noun

lipid m inan

1. (organic chemistry) lipid

Declension

Declension of lipid (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	lipid	lipidy
genitive	lipidu	lipidů
dative	lipidu	lipidům
accusative	lipid	lipidy
vocative	lipide	lipidy
locative	lipidu	lipidech
instrumental	lipidem	lipidy

Further reading

• “lipid”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “lipid”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Noun

lipid n (singular definite lipidet, plural indefinite lipider)

1. (organic chemistry) lipid

Declension

Declension of lipid

neuter gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	lipid	lipidet	lipider	lipiderne
genitive	lipids	lipidets	lipiders	lipidernes

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English, from French lipide.

Noun

lipid f (genitive singular lipide, nominative plural lipidí)

1. (organic chemistry) lipid

Declension

Declension of lipid (second declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative lipid lipidí vocative a lipid a lipidí genitive lipide lipidí dative lipid lipidí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an lipid na lipidí genitive na lipide na lipidí dative leis an lipid don lipid leis na lipidí

Derived terms

• fosfailipid (“phospholipid”)

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “lipid”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “lipid”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

Swedish

Noun

lipid n

1. (organic chemistry) lipid

Declension

Declension of lipid

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	lipid	lipids
	definite	lipiden	lipidens
plural	indefinite	lipider	lipiders
	definite	lipiderna	lipidernas

Derived terms

• fosfolipid (“phospholipid”)