disaccharide

English

Etymology

From di- +‎ saccharide.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /daɪˈsækəɹaɪd/

Noun

disaccharide (plural disaccharides)

1. (biochemistry) Any sugar, such as sucrose, maltose and lactose, consisting of two monosaccharides combined together.

Hyponyms

• sucrose
• lactose
• maltose
• rutinose
• trehalose
• turanose
• cellobiose

Coordinate terms

• monosaccharide
• trisaccharide
• tetrasaccharide
• oligosaccharide
• polysaccharide

Derived terms

• disaccharidase
• heterodisaccharide
• mannodisaccharide
• phosphodisaccharide
• pseudodisaccharide
• sialyldisaccharide

 

Translations

a sugar consisting of two monosaccharides

• Catalan: disacàrid m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 雙醣 / 双糖 (soeng² tong⁴) or 雙糖 / 双糖 (soeng¹ tong⁴), 二醣 / 二糖 (ji⁶ tong⁴)

  Hokkien: 雙醣 / 双糖 or 雙糖 / 双糖 (siang-thn̂g)

  Mandarin: 雙醣 / 双糖 (zh) (shuāngtáng) or 雙糖 / 双糖 (zh) (shuāngtáng), 二醣 / 二糖 (zh) (èrtáng)

• Czech: disacharid m
• Esperanto: disakarido
• Finnish: disakkaridi (fi)
• French: disaccharide (fr) m, diholoside (fr) m
• German: Disaccharid (de) n
• Icelandic: tvísykra f
• Italian: disaccaride (it) m
• Japanese: 二糖 (ja) (にとう, nitō)
• Polish: disacharyd m
• Portuguese: dissacarídeo (pt) m
• Russian: дисахари́д (ru) m (disaxaríd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дисахарид m

  Roman: disaharid m

• Spanish: disacárido m
• Swedish: disackarid (sv) c
• Turkish: disakkarit

French

Noun

disaccharide m (plural disaccharides)

1. disaccharide