freon

• Freon

A genericization of the Chemours trademark "Freon." According to Flood, the name was formed from freeze and the arbitrary suffix -on.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹiːɒn/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -iɒn

freon (countable and uncountable, plural freons)

1. (organic chemistry) Any of several nonflammable refrigerants based on halogenated hydrocarbon including R-12, R-22, and R-23.
2. (informal, refrigeration) A gaseous ozone-depleting refrigerant.
3. (informal, environmentalism) A chlorofluorocarbon.

• CFC

• forne, orfen

• IPA^(key): [ˈfrɛon]
• IPA^(key): [ˈfrɛoːn]

freon m inan

1. freon

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• “freon”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “freon”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

• IPA^(key): /ˈfreːɔn/

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• Hyphenation: fre‧on

freon m (plural freonen)

1. Freon

freon (plural freon-freon)

1. freon

frēon (contracted)

1. alternative form of frēoġan

Borrowed from English freon.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfrɛ.ɔn/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛɔn
• Syllabification: fre‧on

freon m inan

1. freon (non-flammable refrigerant)

• freon in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• freon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French fréon.

freon m (plural freoni)

1. freon

From Old Frisian friōnd, friūnd, from Proto-West Germanic *friund, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndz.

• IPA^(key): /frøə̯n/

freon c (plural freonen, diminutive freontsje)

1. friend (male)
   • 1978, Nije Fryske Bibeloersetting, 2 Samuel 15:37:

     Sa kaam Davids freon Chûsai yn ’e stêd oan, krekt doe’t Absalom yn Jeruzalem oankaam.

     So David’s friend Hushai came into the city, as Absalom came into Jerusalem.

• freonlike
• freonskip
• freondinne

• “freon”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011