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pyridine

French, noun/pi.ʁi.din/

pyridine is a French feminine noun meaning “pyridine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Hétérocycle de formule chimique brute C₅H₅N”.

What does pyridine mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininepyridine

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Hétérocycle de formule chimique brute C₅H₅N. 2. Produit chimique élaboré à partir de cette molécule. 3. Alcali huileux contenu dans les produits de la distillation sèche des os.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of pyridine

  • pyridines plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce pyridine?

  • /pi.ʁi.din/
  • \pi.ʁi.din\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is pyridine in French?

pyridine appears about once in every 10 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).