thiamine
/ˈθaɪ.ə.min/noun
thiamine is a noun meaning “One of the constituents of vitamin B complex, found in meat, yeast and bran, that is necessary for the metabolism of carbohydrates” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-H-I-A-M-I-N-E, and it appears about once in every 5 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of thiamine is thiamines.
What does thiamine mean?
noun
- 1
One of the constituents of vitamin B complex, found in meat, yeast and bran, that is necessary for the metabolism of carbohydrates.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce thiamine?
- /ˈθaɪ.ə.min/
- /ˈθaɪ.ə.mɪn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-NaomiAmethyst-thiamine.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-thiamine_(alt).wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of thiamine
- thiamines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is thiamine?
Thiamine appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 69,055th 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).
Thiamine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense vitamin B1:
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.
Where does thiamine come from?
From thio- + amine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).