🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

queroseno

Pronunciation / Transliteration: queroseno

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Kerosene/ˈkɛr.ə.siːn/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"El queroseno se utiliza en la industria de la aviación."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters.

    "The campers used kerosene to fuel their lanterns during the night."
  2. 2

    A type of fuel used in jet engines.

    "The aircraft was refueled with kerosene before takeoff."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'kerosene' is derived from the Greek word 'keros', meaning 'wax', combined with the suffix '-ene', which denotes unsaturated hydrocarbons. It was first used in the mid-19th century to describe a type of fuel derived from coal or oil.

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