corrosive

English

Warning symbol for corrosive substances.

Etymology

From Old French corrosif.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈɹəʊsɪv/

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Adjective

corrosive (comparative more corrosive, superlative most corrosive)

1. Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid.
2. Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

     Care is no cure, but corrosive.

3. destroying or undermining something gradually.

Derived terms

• corrosive sublimate

Related terms

• corrode
• corrosively
• corrosiveness
• corrosivity

 

Translations

destroying texture or substance of a body

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: разяждащ (bg) (razjaždašt), корозионен (korozionen)
• Catalan: corrosiu
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: žíravý m
• Dutch: corrosief (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: syövyttävä (fi)
• French: corrosif (fr)
• Greek: διαβρωτικός (el) m (diavrotikós)
• Hungarian: maró (hu)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: etsende

• Polish: żrący (pl), kaustyczny
• Scottish Gaelic: loisgeach
• Spanish: corrosivo (es)
• Swedish: frätande (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: aşındırıcı (tr)
• Vietnamese: ăn mòn (vi)
• Welsh: ysol (cy)

Noun

corrosive (plural corrosives)

1. That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.
2. Any solid, liquid or gas capable of irreparably harming living tissues or damaging material on contact.

Translations

substance harming living tissue or damaging material

• Czech: žíravina (cs) f
• Polish: substancja żrąca f
• Turkish: aşındırıcı (tr)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ʁo.ziv/

Adjective

corrosive

1. feminine singular of corrosif

Italian

Adjective

corrosive

1. feminine plural of corrosivo

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kor.roːˈsiː.u̯e/, [kɔrːoːˈs̠iːu̯ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kor.roˈsi.ve/, [korːoˈs̬iːve]

Adjective

corrōsīve

1. vocative masculine singular of corrōsīvus