azote

See also: azoté

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French azote, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “without”) + ζωή (zōḗ, “life”) + -τικός (-tikós, “adjective suffix”). Named by French chemist and biologist Antoine Lavoisier, who saw it as the part of air which cannot sustain life.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæzəʊt/
• Hyphenation: az‧ote

Noun

azote (uncountable)

1. (now historical) Nitrogen.
   • 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 73:

     Azote is one of the most abundant elements in nature, and combined with calorique or heat, it forms azotic gas or phlogistic air, and composes two thirds of the atmosphere […] .

   • 1801, Christopher Girtanner, “A Memoir, in which the Queſtion is examined, whether Azote be a ſimple or complex body?”, in William Nicholson, editor, Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts, volume 4, page 170:

     The proportion of azote gas to that of the oxigen obtained is as 64 to 36.

   • 1823, Chemistry, entry in Charles Maclaren (chief editor), Encyclopædia Britannica, 6th Edition, page 366,

     Hence it is obvious that deutoxide of azote is a compound of one volume of azote and one volume of oxygen gas united together, without any alteration of volume, consequently its specific gravity is the mean of that of oxygen and azotic gases.It is composed, by weight, of azote 0.9722 or 1.75, oxygen 1.1111 or 2. If we reckon the atomic weight of azote 1.75, this gas is obviously a compound of one atom azote and two atoms oxygen.

   • 1831, Thomas Thomson, A System of Chemistry of Inorganic Bodies, volume 1, page 133:

     Those who have adopted these opinions, represent the atom of azote by the number 1.75. We consider the 5 compounds of azote and oxygen, as composed of 1 atom azote, united with 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, atoms of oxygen.

Derived terms

• azo-
• azoted
• azotemia
• azotic
• azotine
• azotise, azotize
• azotite
• azoto-
• azotometer
• azotosome
• azotous
• azoturia
• siderazote

 

Related terms

• azotate
• Azotobacter

 

French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + ζωή (zōḗ, “life”), coined by Antoine Lavoisier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.zɔt/

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Noun

azote m (plural azotes)

1. nitrogen

   Synonym: (obsolete) nitrogène

Derived terms

• azote liquide
• diazote

 

Descendants

Descendants

• → English: azote
• → Italian: azoto
• → Lingala: azoti
• → Polish: azot
• → Portuguese: azoto
• → Russian: азо́т (azót) (see there for further descendants)
• → Turkish: azot

Further reading

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

Latvian

Noun

azote f (5th declension)

1. bosom

Declension

Declension of azote (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	azote	azotes
accusative (akuzatīvs)	azoti	azotes
genitive (ģenitīvs)	azotes	azošu
dative (datīvs)	azotei	azotēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	azoti	azotēm
locative (lokatīvs)	azotē	azotēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	azote	azotes

Derived terms

• kā azotē
• audzēt čūsku azotē
• sildīt čūsku azotē

Portuguese

Verb

azote

1. inflection of azotar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /aˈθote/ [aˈθo.t̪e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /aˈsote/ [aˈso.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ote
• Syllabification: a‧zo‧te

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic السَوْط (as-sawṭ, “whip, cane”). Compare Portuguese açoite.

Noun

azote m (plural azotes)

1. whip, lash, scourge (multi-tailed whip, especially when used by flagellants for mortification of the sinful flesh)

   Synonyms: fusta, látigo

2. (countable) lash (stroke with a whip)

   Synonym: latigazo

3. (uncountable) spanking, licking, thrashing (severe beating)
4. calamity, scourge (event that causes great trouble and suffering, such as pestilence)

Derived terms

• azotar
• azote de Cristo

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

azote

1. inflection of azotar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “azote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28