lipid

Borrowed from French lipide, coined 1923 by Gabriel Bertrand from Ancient Greek λῐ́πος (lĭ́pos, “animal fat”) + French -ide.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪpɪd/

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• Rhymes: -ɪpɪd

lipid (plural lipids)

1. (organic chemistry) Any of a group of organic compounds including the fats, oils, waxes, sterols, and triglycerides. Lipids are characterized by being insoluble in water, and account for most of the fat present in the human body.
   • 2009, Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood, Virago Press (2020), page 384:

     Without lipids your body eats your fat and then your muscles, and the brain is pure fat and the heart is a muscle. You become a feedback loop, and then you fall over.

• → Malay: lipid

• pilid

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɪpɪt]

lipid m inan

1. (organic chemistry) lipid

• “lipid”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “lipid”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

lipid n (singular definite lipidet, plural indefinite lipider)

1. (organic chemistry) lipid

Borrowed from English, from French lipide.

lipid f (genitive singular lipide, nominative plural lipidí)

1. (organic chemistry) lipid

• fosfailipid (“phospholipid”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “lipid”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “lipid”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

lipid n

1. (organic chemistry) lipid

• fosfolipid (“phospholipid”)