lactose

lactose

See also: Lactose

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French lactose, from Latin lac (“milk”) +‎ -ose (derivation of glucose). Coined by French chemist Marcelin Berthelot.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlæk.təʊs/, /ˈlæk.təʊz/

• Audio (RP)

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• Audio (RP)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlæk.toʊs/

Noun

lactose (countable and uncountable, plural lactoses)

1. (biochemistry) The disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products, C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁, a product of glucose and galactose used as a food and in medicinal compounds.

Synonyms

• lactobiose

Derived terms

• lactoseamine
• lactose-free
• lactose-negative
• lactose-positive
• lactose intolerant

Translations

disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products

Albanian: laktoza Arabic: لَاكْتُوز‎ (lāktūz) Hijazi Arabic: لاكتوز‎ (lāktōz) Armenian: կաթնաշաքար (hy) (katʿnašakʿar), լակտոզ (hy) (laktoz) Basque: laktosa Belarusian: лакто́за (laktóza) Bulgarian: лактоза (laktoza) Catalan: lactosa f Chinese: Cantonese: 乳糖 (jyu5 tong4) Mandarin: 乳糖 (zh) (rǔtáng) Min Nan: 奶糖 (leng-thn̂g, ni-thn̂g, lin-thn̂g) Czech: laktóza (cs) f Danish: laktose (da) c, mælkesukker n Dutch: lactose (nl) f, melksuiker (nl) m Esperanto: laktozo (eo), laktosukero Estonian: laktoos, piimasuhkur Faroese: mjólkarsukur n Finnish: laktoosi (fi), maitosokeri (fi) French: lactose (fr) m Galician: lactosa (gl) f Georgian: ლაქტოზა (lakṭoza) German: Laktose f, (alternatively:) Lactose (de), Milchzucker (de) m Greek: λακτόζη (el) f (laktózi) Hebrew: לקטוז‎ (he) m (laktóz) Hindi: दुग्धधु (dugdhadhu) Hungarian: laktóz (hu), tejcukor Icelandic: laktósi m, mjólkursykur (is) m Ido: laktoso (io) Indonesian: laktosa (id) Irish: lachtós Italian: lattosio (it) m Japanese: 乳糖 (ja) (にゅうとう, nyūtō), ラクトース (rakutōsu) Khmer: ឡាក់តូស (laktouh) Korean: 락토스 (ko) (raktoseu), 유당 (yudang), 젖당 (ko) (jeotdang) Latin: lactosum Latvian: laktoze (lv) Lithuanian: laktozė Macedonian: лактоза (laktoza) Malagasy: laktôzy (mg) Malay: laktosa Maori: huka waiū Marathi: दुग्धधु (dugdhadhu) Nepali: दुग्धधु (dugdhadhu) Norwegian: Bokmål: laktose m, melkesukker Nynorsk: laktose m, mjølkesukker Occitan: lactòsa Persian: لاکتوز‎ (fa) (lâktoz) Polish: laktoza (pl) f Portuguese: lactose (pt) f Russian: лакто́за (ru) f (laktóza) Serbo-Croatian: laktoza, mliječni šećer Slovak: laktóza (sk) Slovene: laktoza, mlečni sladkor Spanish: lactosa f Sundanese: laktosa, gula susu Swedish: laktos (sv), mjölksocker (sv) Tagalog: laktosa Thai: แล็กโทส Turkish: laktoz (tr), süt şekeri Uzbek: laktoza Vietnamese: đường sữa, lactoza Welsh: lactos m

Anagrams

• Castelo, Lacoste, alecost, coletas, locates, scatole, scotale, talcose, to scale, to-scale

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French lactose, formed from Latin lac (“milk”) +‎ -ose (“sugar”) (derivation of sucrose).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌlɑkˈtoː.zə/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: lac‧to‧se
• Rhymes: -oːzə

Noun

lactose f (uncountable)

1. lactose

   Synonym: melksuiker

Derived terms

• lactose-intolerant

Related terms

• lactase

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French

Etymology

Coined by French chemist Marcelin Berthelot, from Latin lac (“milk”) +‎ -ose (“sugar”) (derivation of sucrose). See also lait.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lak.toz/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

lactose m (usually uncountable, plural lactoses)

1. (biochemistry) lactose

Further reading

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

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French lactose, formed from Latin lac (“milk”) +‎ -ose (“sugar”) (derivation of sucrose).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /lakˈtɔ.zi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /lakˈtɔ.zi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /lakˈtɔ.ze/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /lɐˈktɔ.z(ɨ)/

• Rhymes: -ɔzi, -ɔzɨ

Noun

lactose f (plural lactoses)

1. (biochemistry) lactose (disaccharide sugar of milk)

Related terms

• leite