paraffin

• n. パラフィン; [化学]ストレプタン; 硬質パラフィン
• パラフィンで処理する。

ラテン語のparum「少し、あまり」から、PIE*pau「少し」、語源はfew「貧しい」と同じ - affin「似ている」、語源はaffinity「有限」と同じ。パラフィンを指す言葉としても使われる。

paraffin

paraffin: [19] The term paraffin was coined in German around 1830 by the chemist Reichenbach. It was formed from Latin parum ‘little’ and affinis ‘related’ (source of English affinity), an allusion to the fact that paraffin is not closely related chemically to any other substance. The word is first recorded in English in 1838.
=> affinity, fine

paraffin (n.)

1838, from German Paraffin, coined c. 1830 by German chemist Karl von Reichenbach (1788-1869), who first obtained it as a waxy substance from wood tar, irregularly from Latin parum "not very, too little," probably related to parvus "little, small" (see parvi-) + affinis "associated with" (see affinity).

So called because paraffin is chemically not closely related to other substances. The liquid form (originally parafin oil) Reichenbach called eupion, but this was the standard meaning of paraffin in English by 1860.

1. The fire blazed up when I added paraffin .

灯油を少し加えると火が燃え上がった.

2.He took the paraffin stove on a picnic and the rudddy thing wouldn 't work.

彼はその石油ストーブを持ってピクニックに行ったが、あのクソなものは全然使えなかった。

3. Paraffin waxes are normally marketed on the basis of a melting-point test.

石灰は一般的にその融点によって市場で分類販売されている。

4. Paraffin has the property of dissolving grease.

パラフィンは油脂を溶解する特性を持っている。

5. Paraffin ，however，is not a good phlegmatizing agent.

パラフィンは良好な鈍感剤ではない。