petroleum

• petrolaeum (archaic)
• petrolæum (archaic)

From Medieval Latin petroleum, from petra (“rock”) + oleum (“oil”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pəˈtɹoʊliəm/

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petroleum (countable and uncountable, plural petroleums or petrolea)

2. A flammable liquid ranging in color from clear to very dark brown and black, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons, occurring naturally in deposits under the Earth's surface.

   Synonyms: crude oil, oil

   petroleum-based products

   • 1940, William Plotts, Isogeotherm, Or Monist Theory of Stratified Mineral Occurrence and Origin, page 7:

     Coal and petroleum do not occur hap-hazard in nature, but the aggregate occurrence of each product in any region forms a definite, limited horizon, which, in its continuance, is independent of the bedding plane.

• (not a synonym) petrol (gasoline, gas)
• linoleum

From Medieval Latin petroleum, from petra (“rock”) + oleum (“oil”).

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• Hyphenation: pe‧tro‧le‧um

petroleum m (uncountable)

1. petroleum

• aardolie
• ruwe olie

• → Indonesian: petroleum

From Dutch petroleum, from Medieval Latin petroleum, from petra (“rock”) + oleum (“oil”).

• IPA^(key): [pe.troˈleu.m]
• Hyphenation: pét‧ro‧lé‧um

pétroléum (plural petroleum-petroleum)

1. (petrochemistry) petroleum

   Synonym: minyak bumi

• “petroleum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• petrolium (Middle Polish)

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin petroleum. First attested in 1534.^[1]

• Rhymes: -ɔlɛwm
• Syllabification: pe‧tro‧leum

petroleum n

1. (obsolete) synonym of ropa naftowa

• “PETROLEUM”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 31.03.2016
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “petroleum”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “petroleum”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “petroleum”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 123
• petroleum in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

petroleum n or c

1. petroleum
2. (Finland) kerosene, (UK) paraffin

   Synonym: fotogen

• bitumen
• fotogen
• vaselin

• petroleum in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• petroleum in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• petroleum in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)