🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

sacarina

Pronunciation / Transliteration: sakaˈɾina

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Saccharin/ˈsæk.ər.ɪn/
nounadjectiveCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #28450 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"La sacarina es un edulcorante artificial muy popular."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An artificially produced white crystalline powder that is exceptionally sweet, commonly used as a zero-calorie sugar substitute.

    "He added a small tablet of saccharin to sweeten his morning coffee instead of sugar."
As adjective
  1. 1

    Excessively sweet or sentimental in taste, manner, or character; cloying.

    "The romantic comedy was ruined by its saccharin plot and overly sentimental dialogue."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived in the late 19th century from the Latin 'saccharum', meaning sugar, through Greek and Arabic roots, combined with the chemical suffix '-in'. It was coined by the German chemist Constantin Fahlberg and his mentor Ira Remsen following their discovery of the artificial sweetener in 1879. Over time, the term also developed a figurative adjectival sense (often spelled 'sacharine') denoting excessive sweetness or sentimentalism.

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