menthol

See also: Menthol

English

Etymology

From Latin mentha (“mint”) +‎ -ol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛnθɒl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

menthol (countable and uncountable, plural menthols)

1. (organic chemistry) A cyclic monoterpene alcohol; the major component of the essential oil of peppermint; used in pharmaceutical preparations as an antitussive and antipruritic agent, as a nasal decongestant, and in menthol cigarettes.
2. A menthol cigarette.

Derived terms

• dextromenthol
• isomenthol
• levomenthol
• neomenthol
• racementhol

Translations

cyclic monoterpene alcohol

• Catalan: mentol m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 薄荷醇 (zh) (bòhé chún)

• Czech: mentol m
• Danish: mentol
• Dutch: menthol (nl) m
• Esperanto: mentolo
• Finnish: mentoli (fi)
• German: Menthol (de) n
• Greek: μινθόλη n (minthóli), μενθόλη (menthóli), μεντόλ (mentól)
• Italian: mentolo (it) m
• Japanese: メントール (mentōru), 薄荷脳 (hakkanō)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mentol m

  Nynorsk: mentol m

• Polish: mentol (pl) m
• Portuguese: mentol m
• Russian: менто́л (ru) m (mentól)
• Spanish: mentol (es) m
• Swedish: mentol (sv) c

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃.tɔl/

• Audio:

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Noun

menthol m (plural menthols)

1. menthol

Further reading

• “menthol”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.