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acid

See also: ACID, Acid, and àcid

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Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der.
Latin aceō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin acidusbor.
French acidebor.
English acid

    From French acide, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”), from aceō (“to be sour”). Doublet of agita.

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    acid (comparative acider, superlative acidest)

    1. Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
      acid fruits or liquors
    2. (figuratively) Sour-tempered.
      His response was harsh and acid.
    3. Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
      acid soils
      • 1975, Peter N. Barber, Cecil Ernest Lucas Phillips, The Trees Around Us, page 101:
        Like other nyssas, it is in nature a creature of swampy places and looks loveliest where massed close to water and reflected in it, but justifies itself elsewhere if the soil is moist and acid, succeeding in wet clay.
    4. (music) Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.

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    hydrochloric acid

    acid (countable and uncountable, plural acids)

    1. A sour substance.
    2. (chemistry)
      1. Any compound which yields H+ ions (protons) when dissolved in water; an Arrhenius acid.
        • 2015 August 18, Clelia De-la-Peña et al., “The role of chromatin modifications in somatic embryogenesis in plants”, in Frontiers in Plant Science‎[1], volume 6, →DOI:
          SE onset depends on a complex network of interactions among plant growth regulators, mainly auxins and cytokinins, during the proembryogenic early stages, and ethylene and gibberellic and abscisic acids later in the development of somatic embryos.
      2. Any compound that easily donates protons to a base; a Brønsted acid.
      3. Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid.
    3. Any corrosive substance.
      • 2006, James Fenton, Jerusalem:
        You are in error. / This is terror. / This is your banishment. This land is mine. / This is what you earn. / This is the Law of No Return. / This is the sour dough, this the sweet wine. / This is my history, this my race / And this unhappy man threw acid in my face.
    4. (uncountable, slang) LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide.
      • 1967, Joe David Brown, editor, The Hippies, New York: Time, Inc, page 171:
        In the end, though, there is one sure way to distinguish a real hippie from his assorted sympathizers: hippies drop acid. That is, real hippies frequently, if irregularly, ingest LSD.

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    terms derived from “acid”

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    • → Welsh: asid

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    acid m (plural acide, definite acidi, definite plural acidet)

    1. (chemistry) acid
      Synonym: thartor

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    Declension of acid
    singular plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative acid acidi acide acidet
    accusative acidin
    dative acidi acidit acideve acideve
    ablative acidesh

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    • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[2], 1980
    • “acid”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

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    Unadapted borrowing from English acid.

    Attested since at least 1970.

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    acid m (uncountable, no diminutive)

    1. (slang) LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide
      Synonym: LSD
    2. (music) acid

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    Borrowed from French acide, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”).

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    acid m or n (feminine singular acidă, masculine plural acizi, feminine/neuter plural acide)

    1. acid, acidic

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    Declension of acid
    singular plural
    masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
    nominative-
    accusative     		indefinite acid acidă acizi acide
    definite acidul acida acizii acidele
    genitive-
    dative     		indefinite acid acide acizi acide
    definite acidului acidei acizilor acidelor
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    acid m (plural acizi)

    1. acid

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    singular plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative-accusative acid acidul acizi acizii
    genitive-dative acid acidului acizi acizilor
    vocative acidule acizilor

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    acid (invariable)

    1. (music) acid

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    acid m (uncountable)

    1. (music) acid

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