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Carbone

Car′bone

,
Verb.
T.
[See
Carbonado
.]
To broil.
[Obs.]
“We had a calf’s head carboned”.
Pepys.

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carbone

carbone

See also: carboné

English

Noun

carbone

  1. Obsolete form of carbon.
    • 1819, Bartholomew Parr, The London Medical Dictionary (volume 2, page 279)
      The colour we now know to be owing to the influence of the oxygenous gas, and the darker colour of venal blood to carbone.

Verb

carbone (third-person singular simple present carbones, present participle carboning, simple past and past participle carboned)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To broil.


French

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin carbō, carbōnem, coined by Lavoisier. Doublet of charbon, which was inherited.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaʁ.bɔn/

Noun

carbone m (uncountable)

  1. carbon

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin carbō, carbōnem (charcoal; coal), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ker (to burn).

Pronunciation

  • carbóne
  • IPA(key): /karˈbone/

Noun

carbone m (plural carboni)

  1. coal
  2. charcoal

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Latin

Noun

carbōne

  1. ablative singular of carbō