droplet

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English drop

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -ulus

Latin -ellus

Old French -el

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tosder.?

Late Latin -ittus

Old French -et

Old French -eletbor.

Middle English -let

English -let

English droplet

From drop + -let.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɒplət/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɑplət/
• Rhymes: -ɒplət

Noun

droplet (plural droplets)

1. A very small drop.

Derived terms

• droplet infection
• dropletize
• dropleton
• interdroplet
• macrodroplet
• microdroplet
• nanodroplet
• picodroplet
• superdroplet

Translations

very small drop

• Arabic: قُطَيْرَة f (quṭayra)
• Armenian: փոքր կաթիլ (pʻokʻr katʻil)
• Azerbaijani: damcı (az)
• Breton: banne (br) m
• Bulgarian: ка́пчица (bg) f (kápčica)
• Catalan: goteta f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小滴 (zh) (xiǎodī)

• Czech: kapička (cs) f
• Dutch: druppeltje (nl) n
• Esperanto: guteto
• Finnish: tippa (fi), pisara (fi)
• French: gouttelette (fr) f, goutte (fr) f
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: dripke n

• Georgian: წვეთი (c̣veti)
• German: Tröpfchen (de) n
• Greek: σταγονίδιο (el) n (stagonídio), σταλίτσα (el) f (stalítsa), σταγόνα (el) f (stagóna)
• Hebrew: טיפית f (tipít)
• Hindi: बूंद (būnd)
• Hungarian: cseppecske (hu)
• Icelandic: dropi (is) m, smádropi m
• Ido: guteto (io)
• Ingrian: tilkka, pisara, tippa, tilkku, tilppu
• Irish: driog f, braoinín m
• Italian: gocciolina (it) f
• Japanese: 小滴 (しょうてき, shōteki)
• Khmer: ដំណក់តូច (dɑmnɑk tooc)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: guttula f
• Latvian: lāse (lv) f
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Māori: māturu
• Nahuatl: chichipictli, chichipiniliztica
• Polish: kropelka (pl) f
• Portuguese: gotinha (pt), gotícula (pt)
• Russian: ка́пелька (ru) f (kápelʹka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̏пљица f

  Latin: kȁpljica (sh) f

• Shona: donhwe
• Slovak: kvapôčka f
• Spanish: gotita (es) f
• Swedish: droppe (sv)
• Thai: หยาดน้ำ (yàat náam)
• Tocharian B: pältakw
• Turkish: damlacık (tr)
• Ukrainian: кра́пелька (krápelʹka)
• Unami: pànkpèk
• Vietnamese: giọt nhỏ
• Volapük: tof (vo)
• Walloon: gotlete (wa) f
• Welsh: defnyn (cy) m
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• pretold, torpled

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English droplet.

Noun

droplet m (invariable)

1. (neologism) droplet