proton

See also: Proton, protón, and próton

English

Etymology

Coined by New Zealand-British scientist Ernest Rutherford from Ancient Greek πρῶτον (prôton), neuter of πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”), with an additional intention of honoring English chemist William Prout.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹəʊ.tɒn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹoʊ.tɑn/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: pro‧ton

Noun

proton (plural protons)

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

Synonyms

• p (symbolic)

Hypernyms

• baryon
• nucleon

Coordinate terms

• neutron
• electron
• deuteron
• triton

Derived terms

• antiproton
• diproton
• interproton
• nonproton
• photoproton
• protic
• protonate
• protonation
• proton capture
• protonic
• protonium
• protonlike
• protonmotive
• proton number
• protonophore
• proton pump
• prototropy
• quasiproton

 

Translations

positively charged nucleon

• Albanian: proton (sq) m
• Arabic: بْرُوتُون‎ m (brutūn)
• Armenian: պրոտոն (hy) (proton)
• Asturian: protón m
• Basque: protoi
• Bengali: প্রোটন (proṭôn)
• Breton: proton (collective), protonenn f (singulative)
• Bulgarian: прото́н (bg) m (protón)
• Catalan: protó (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 質子, 质子 (jat¹ ji²)

  Mandarin: 質子 (zh), 质子 (zh) (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) n (protónio)
• Gujarati: પ્રાણુ (prāṇu)
• Hawaiian: huna ʻāne
• Hindi: प्रोटॉन (proṭŏn), प्राणु (prāṇu)
• Hungarian: proton (hu)
• Icelandic: róteind (is) f
• Ido: protono (io)
• Indonesian: proton (id)
• Interlingua: proton
• Irish: prótón m

• Italian: protone (it)
• Japanese: 陽子 (ja) (ようし, yōshi)
• Khmer: មូលាណូ (moul la no), ប្រូតុង (bro tong)
• Korean: 양자 (ko) (yangja) (陽子 (ko)), 양성자 (ko) (yangseongja) (陽性子 (ko))
• Latin: proton, protonis
• Latvian: protons m
• Malay: proton
• Maori: iraoho
• Marathi: प्राणू (prāṇū)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: proton (no) n

  Nynorsk: proton (nn) n

• Persian: پروتون‎ (fa) (prutun)
• Polish: proton (pl) m
• Portuguese: próton (pt) m (Brazil), protão (pt) (Portugal)
• Romanian: proton (ro) m
• Russian: прото́н (ru) m (protón)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: про̀то̄н m

  Roman: pròtōn (sh) m

• Slovene: proton (sl) m
• Spanish: protón (es)
• Swedish: proton (sv) c
• Tagalog: mulasik
• Thai: โปรตอน (th) (bproo-dtɔn)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: proton (tr)
• Vietnamese: proton (vi)
• Yiddish: פּראָטאָן‎ m (proton)

Anagrams

• Porton, pronto

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Afrikaans

Noun

proton (plural protone)

1. (physics) proton

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈproton]
• Rhymes: -oton

Noun

proton m

1. proton

Further reading

• proton in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• proton in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pʰʁoˈtˢoˀn]
• Rhymes: -oːˀn

Noun

proton c (singular definite protonen, plural indefinite protoner)

1. (physics) proton

Declension

Declension of proton

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	proton	protonen	protoner	protonerne
genitive	protons	protonens	protoners	protonernes

References

• “proton” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

proton n (plural protonen)

1. (physics) proton

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.tɔ̃/

• audio

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• Audio (Paris)

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Noun

proton m (plural protons)

1. (physics) proton

Further reading

• “proton” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ ˈproton]
• Hyphenation: pro‧ton
• Rhymes: -on

Noun

proton (plural protonok)

1. (physics) proton (positively charged subatomic particle)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	proton	protonok
accusative	protont	protonokat
dative	protonnak	protonoknak
instrumental	protonnal	protonokkal
causal-final	protonért	protonokért
translative	protonná	protonokká
terminative	protonig	protonokig
essive-formal	protonként	protonokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	protonban	protonokban
superessive	protonon	protonokon
adessive	protonnál	protonoknál
illative	protonba	protonokba
sublative	protonra	protonokra
allative	protonhoz	protonokhoz
elative	protonból	protonokból
delative	protonról	protonokról
ablative	protontól	protonoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	protoné	protonoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	protonéi	protonokéi

Possessive forms of proton
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	protonom	protonjaim
2nd person sing.	protonod	protonjaid
3rd person sing.	protonja	protonjai
1st person plural	protonunk	protonjaink
2nd person plural	protonotok	protonjaitok
3rd person plural	protonjuk	protonjaik

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Latin

Etymology

From the neuter form πρῶτον (prôton) of Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈproː.ton/, [ˈpɾoː.t̪ɔn]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpro.ton/, [ˈprɔː.t̪ɔn]

Noun

prōton m (genitive prōtōnis); third declension

1. (physics, New Latin) proton

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	prōton	prōtōnēs
Genitive	prōtōnis	prōtōnum
Dative	prōtōnī	prōtōnibus
Accusative	prōtōnem	prōtōnēs
Ablative	prōtōne	prōtōnibus
Vocative	prōton	prōtōnēs

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Malay

Noun

proton (plural proton-proton, informal 1st possessive protonku, impolite 2nd possessive protonmu, 3rd possessive protonnya)

1. proton

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πρῶτον (prôton)

Noun

proton n (definite singular protonet, indefinite plural proton or protoner, definite plural protona or protonene)

1. (physics) proton

References

• “proton” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πρῶτον (prôton)

Noun

proton n (definite singular protonet, indefinite plural proton, definite plural protona)

1. (physics) proton

References

• “proton” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈprɔ.tɔn/

Noun

proton m inan

1. 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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prʊˈtoːn/

Noun

proton c

1. (physics) proton

Declension

Declension of proton
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	proton	protonen	protoner	protonerna
Genitive	protons	protonens	protoners	protonernas

See also

• neutron
• elektron