sucrose

English

Etymology

From French sucre (“sugar”), derivation of Latin saccharum + -ose.

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsukɹoʊs/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsuːkɹəʊz/, /ˈsjuːkɹəʊz/
Audio (UK) (file)

Noun

sucrose (countable and uncountable, plural sucroses)

(biochemistry) A disaccharide with formula C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁, consisting of two simple sugars, glucose and fructose; normal culinary sugar.
- 1858, July 3, The Medical Times & Gazette, 20:
  There were four forms of sugar interesting to the physiologist---cane sugar, grape sugar, milk sugar, and liver sugar. They might be called, for the sake of distinction, sucrose, glucose, lactose, and hepatose. The first two were vegetable, the last two, animal products.
- 2019, S. Nel, S. B. Davis, A. Endo, and L. M. T. Dicks, “Differentiation between Bacillus amyloliquefaciens and Bacillus subtilis isolated from a South African sugarcane processing factory using ARDRA and rpoB gene sequencing” in Archives of Microbiology, 1:
  Dextran is an indicator of cane deterioration and sucrose loss after harvesting of the cane.

Synonyms

saccharose

Translations

a disaccharide

Albanian: sakaroza f
Arabic: سكروز‎ (sakruz)
Armenian: սախարոզ (saxaroz)
Asturian: sacarosa f
Basque: sakarosa
Belarusian: цукроза f (cukróza)
Bulgarian: захароза f (zaharoza), сукроза f (sukroza)
Catalan: sacarosa (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 蔗糖 (ze³ tong⁴)
Hakka: 蔗糖 (cha-thòng)
Mandarin: 蔗糖 (zh) (zhètáng)
Min Nan: 蔗糖 (chià-thn̂g)
Crimean Tatar: saharoza
Czech: sacharóza (cs) f
Danish: sukrose (da) c, saccharose c
Dutch: sacharose (nl) f or m
Esperanto: sakarozo
Estonian: sahharoos
Finnish: sakkaroosi (fi)
French: saccharose (fr) m, saccarose (fr) m
Galician: sacarosa (gl) f
Georgian: საქაროზა (sakaroza)
German: Saccharose (de) f
Greek: σακχαρόζη f (sakcharózi), καλαμοσάκχαρο (el) n (kalamosákcharo)
Hindi: इक्षुधु (ikṣudhu)
Hungarian: cukor (hu), szacharóz (hu)
Icelandic: súkrósi m, sakkarósi m
Ido: sakarozo (io)
Indonesian: sukrosa (id)
Irish: siúcrós m
Italian: saccarosio (it) m
Japanese: スクロース (sukurōsu), 蔗糖 (ja) (しょとう, shotō)
Javanese: sukrosa
Kannada: ಸುಕ್ರೋಸ್ (sukrōs)
Kazakh: сахароза (saxaroza)
Khmer: សក្ករជាតិ (sɑɑkkɑɑciəteʼ), ស៊ុក្រូស (sukruuh)
Korean: 자당(蔗糖) (ko) (jadang)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: sakaroz (ku) m
Kyrgyz: сахароза (ky) (saharoza)
Latin: saccharosum n
Latvian: saharoze (lv) f
Lithuanian: sacharozė f
Luxembourgish: Saccharos
Macedonian: сахароза f (saharoza)
Malay: sukrosa
Malayalam: സുക്രോസ് (sukrōsŭ)
Maori: hukatō
Marathi: इक्षुधु (ikṣudhu)
Nepali: इक्षुधु (ikṣudhu)
North Frisian: saccharoos
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sukrose m
Nynorsk: sukrose m
Occitan: sacaròsa f, sucròsa f
Persian: ساکارز‎ (fa)
Polish: sacharoza f
Portuguese: sacarose (pt) f
Romanian: zaharoză (ro) f, sucroză f
Russian: сахаро́за (ru) f (saxaróza)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: сахаро́за f
Roman: saharóza (sh) f
Sinhalese: සුක්රෝස් (sukrōs)
Slovak: sacharóza (sk) f
Slovene: saharoza f
Spanish: sacarosa f
Sundanese: sukrosa
Swedish: sackaros (sv) c, sukros c
Tamil: சுக்குரோசு (cukkurōcu)
Telugu: సుక్రోజ్ (sukrōj)
Thai: ซูโครส (soo-króht)
Turkish: sakkaroz (tr)
Ukrainian: цукро́за (uk) f (cukróza), сахаро́за (uk) f (saxaróza)
Uzbek:
Cyrillic: сахароза (uz) (saxaroza)
Roman: saxaroza (uz)
Welsh: swcros (cy) m
West Frisian: sacharoaze (fy) c

Anagrams

Cousers, Croesus, Crouses, Crœsus, Scouser, courses, rescous, scourse, scouser, sources

Dutch

Etymology

From French sucre (“sugar”), derivation of Latin saccharum +‎ -ose.

Pronunciation

Audio (file)
Hyphenation: su‧cro‧se

Noun

sucrose f or m (uncountable)

sucrose

Synonyms

sacharose

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