neutrino

See also: Neutrino, neutrínó, and neŭtrino

English

Etymology

Coined by Italian physicist Enrico Fermi in 1933 from neutron + the Italian diminutive suffix -ino; by surface analysis, neutr(o)- +‎ -ino.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /njuːˈtɹiːnəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /nuˈtɹinoʊ/
• Rhymes: -iːnəʊ
• Hyphenation: neu‧tri‧no

Noun

neutrino (plural neutrinos)

1. An elementary particle that is classified as a lepton, and has an extremely small but nonzero mass and no electric charge. It interacts with the surroundings only via the weak force or gravitation, making it very difficult to detect.
   • 2011 September 22, Nick Collins, “Speed of light 'broken' by scientists”, in Daily Telegraph‎^[1]:

     But researchers at the CERN lab near Geneva claim they have recorded neutrinos, a type of tiny particle, travelling faster than the barrier of 186,282 miles (299,792 kilometres) per second.

Derived terms

• antielectron neutrino
• antimuon neutrino
• antineutrino
• cosmic neutrino background
• electron neutrino
• geoneutrino
• -ino
• muon neutrino
• neutralino
• neutrinic
• neutrino astronomy
• neutrinoless
• neutrino oscillation
• neutrinophilic
• neutrinosphere
• sneutrino
• solar neutrino
• sterile neutrino
• tau neutrino

 

Related terms

• neutro-
• neutron

 

Translations

An elementary particle with extremely small mass and no electric charge

• Afrikaans: neutrino
• Arabic: نْيُتْرِينُو m (nyutrinū)
• Aragonese: neutrino m
• Armenian: նեյտրինո (hy) (neytrino)
• Asturian: neutrín m
• Basque: neutrino (eu)
• Bulgarian: неутри́но n (neutríno)
• Catalan: neutrí (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 中微子 (zh) (zhōngwēizǐ)

• Czech: neutrino (cs) n
• Danish: neutrino c
• Dutch: neutrino (nl) m
• Esperanto: neŭtrino (eo)
• Finnish: neutriino (fi)
• French: neutrino (fr) m
• Galician: neutrino (gl) m
• German: Neutrino (de) n
• Greek: νετρίνο (el) n (netríno)
• Hebrew: נייטרינו
• Hungarian: neutrínó (hu)
• Icelandic: fiseind (is) f
• Ido: neutrino (io)
• Indonesian: neutrino (id)
• Interlingua: neutrino
• Italian: neutrino (it) m, neutrina f, neutrino (it) m
• Japanese: 中性微子 (chūseibishi), ニュートリノ (ja) (nyūtorino)
• Khmer: អព្យាកតាប្ប (apyie kɑɑt appa’)
• Korean: 중성미자 (jungseongmija)
• Latin: neutrino m, neutrīnum n
• Malay: neutrino m
• Maori: nuterino
• Norwegian: neutrino m
• Polish: neutrino (pl) n
• Portuguese: neutrino (pt) m, neutrina f
• Romanian: neutrino (ro) m
• Russian: нейтри́но (ru) n (nejtríno)
• Sardinian: neutrinu m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: неутри́но n

  Roman: neutríno (sh) n

• Sicilian: neutrinu (scn) m
• Slovene: nevtrino m
• Spanish: neutrino (es) m, neutrina f
• Sundanese: neutrino m
• Swedish: neutrino (sv) c
• Tagalog: awansikin
• Thai: นิวทริโน, นิวตริโน
• Turkish: nötrino
• West Frisian: neutrino m

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnɛu̯triːno]

Noun

neutrino n

1. (physics) neutrino

Declension

Declension of neutrino (hard neuter)

	singular	plural
nominative	neutrino	neutrina
genitive	neutrina	neutrin
dative	neutrinu	neutrinům
accusative	neutrino	neutrina
vocative	neutrino	neutrina
locative	neutrinu	neutrinech
instrumental	neutrinem	neutriny

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

neutrino n (plural neutrino's)

1. (physics) neutrino

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nø.tʁi.no/

• Audio (Paris):

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Noun

neutrino m (plural neutrinos)

1. (physics) neutrino

Further reading

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

Galician

Noun

neutrino m (plural neutrinos)

1. (physics) neutrino

Ido

Noun

neutrino (plural neutrini)

1. (physics) neutrino

Northern Sami

Etymology

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Noun

neutrīno

1. (physics) neutrino

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English neutrino.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɛwˈtri.nɔ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -inɔ
• Syllabification: neu‧tri‧no

Noun

neutrino n

1. (particle physics) neutrino

Declension

Declension of neutrino

	singular	plural
nominative	neutrino	neutrina
genitive	neutrina	neutrin
dative	neutrinu	neutrinom
accusative	neutrino	neutrina
instrumental	neutrinem	neutrinami
locative	neutrinie	neutrinach
vocative	neutrino	neutrina

Derived terms

noun

• antyneutrino

 

Further reading

• neutrino in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• neutrino in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /newˈtɾĩ.nu/ [neʊ̯ˈtɾĩ.nu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /newˈtɾĩ.nu/ [neʊ̯ˈtɾĩ.nu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /newˈtɾi.no/ [neʊ̯ˈtɾi.no]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /newˈtɾi.nu/

• Hyphenation: neu‧tri‧no

Noun

neutrino m (plural neutrinos)

1. (physics) neutrino (en elementary particle with extremely small mass and no electric charge)

Derived terms

• antineutrino

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French neutrino.

Noun

neutrino m (uncountable)

1. (physics) neutrino

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	neutrino	neutrinoul
genitive-dative	neutrino	neutrinoului
vocative	neutrinoule

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /neutrǐːno/
• Hyphenation: ne‧u‧tri‧no

Noun

neutríno m (Cyrillic spelling неутри́но)

1. (physics) neutrino

Declension

Declension of neutrino

	singular	plural
nominative	neutríno	neutríni
genitive	neutrína	neutrínā
dative	neutrínu	neutrínima
accusative	neutríno	neutríne
vocative	neutríno	neutríni
locative	neutrínu	neutrínima
instrumental	neutrínom	neutrínima

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /neuˈtɾino/ [neu̯ˈt̪ɾi.no]
• Rhymes: -ino
• Syllabification: neu‧tri‧no

Noun

neutrino m (plural neutrinos)

1. (physics) neutrino

Derived terms

• antineutrino
• neutrino electrónico
• neutrino muónico
• neutrino tauónico

 

Further reading

• “neutrino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10