ethanolamine
noun
ethanolamine is a noun meaning “a hydroxy-amine, HO.CH₂.CH₂.NH₂, manufactured by the reaction of ethylene oxide with ammonia; it is found naturally in a combined form in cephalin…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-T-H-A-N-O-L-A-M-I-N-E, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ethanolamine is ethanolamines.
What does ethanolamine mean?
noun
- 1
a hydroxy-amine, HO.CH₂.CH₂.NH₂, manufactured by the reaction of ethylene oxide with ammonia; it is found naturally in a combined form in cephalin, and has many industrial applications
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce ethanolamine?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-ethanolamine.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of ethanolamine
- ethanolamines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ethanolamine?
Ethanolamine appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Ethanolamine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a hydroxy-amine manufactured by the reaction of ethylene oxide with ammonia:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | etanolamina |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.