stéarine
French, noun/ste.a.ʁin/
stéarine is a French feminine noun meaning “stearine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Triglycéride, triple ester du glycérol et d’acide stéarique, substance solide, nacrée, tirée du suif et qu’on…”.
What does stéarine mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininestearine
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Triglycéride, triple ester du glycérol et d’acide stéarique, substance solide, nacrée, tirée du suif et qu’on emploie pour la fabrication de la bougie.
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 stéarine
- stéarines plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce stéarine?
- /ste.a.ʁin/
- \ste.a.ʁin\
- [ste.a.ʁin]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to stéarine
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is stéarine in French?
stéarine appears about once in every 62 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).