-ene

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 184 words | Copyright

-ene (chem.) terminal el. of the names of certain hydrocarbons (e.g. benzene, naphthalene, toluene), the vowel e being used to complete the sequence a, e, i, o. Cf. -ANE2, -INE5, -ONE.

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