adrenaline

See also: adrénaline and adrenalinę

English

The chemical structure of adrenaline.

Alternative forms

• adrenalin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-bor.

English ad-

Latin rēn

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Late Latin rēnālislbor.

English renal

English adrenal

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos

Proto-Italic *-īnos

Latin -īnusder.

Old French -inbor.

Middle English -in

English -ine

English adrenaline

From adrenal +‎ -ine, coined by Japanese chemist Takamine Jōkichi in 1901.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈdɹɛnəlɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

adrenaline (usually uncountable, plural adrenalines)

2. (biochemistry) Epinephrine, the hormone and neurotransmitter.
4. Excitement; thrills.

   Some people bungee jump to feel alive through the surge of adrenaline.

   • 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 361:

     May be it's not as heavy as he thought, or may be he's on adrenaline overdrive.

   • 2017, Dave Atcheson, Dead Reckoning, →ISBN:

     Despite the crisis, the adrenaline that must have been feeding his own alarm, Tim managed to maintain his control and spoke in a subdued tone, assuring the tenderman and all of us that things would be okay.

Derived terms

• adrenalined
• adrenaline junkie
• adrenalinergic
• adrenaline rush
• adrenaline sport
• adrenalinic
• adrenalinogenic
• adrenergic
• metadrenaline
• noradrenaline

Descendants

• → Catalan: adrenalina
• → Dutch: adrenaline
• → French: adrénaline
• → Spanish: adrenalina
• → Swahili: adrenalini

Translations

the compound epinephrine

• Afrikaans: adrenalien (af)
• Albanian: adrenalina ?
• Arabic: أَدْرِينَالِين (ar) m (ʔadrīnālīn)
• Armenian: ադրենալին (hy) (adrenalin)
• Belarusian: адрэналі́н m (adrenalín)
• Catalan: adrenalina (ca) f, epinefrina f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 腎上腺素 / 肾上腺素 (san⁶ soeng⁶ sin³ sou³)

  Mandarin: 腎上腺素 / 肾上腺素 (zh) (shènshàngxiànsù)

• Czech: adrenalin (cs) m
• Danish: adrenalin c or n
• Dutch: adrenaline (nl) f
• Esperanto: adrenalino (eo)
• Finnish: adrenaliini (fi)
• French: adrénaline (fr) f
• Galician: adrenalina (gl) f
• German: Adrenalin (de) n
• Greek: αδρεναλίνη (el) f (adrenalíni)
• Hebrew: אדרנלין (he) m (adrenalín), אפינפרין (he) m (epinefrín)
• Hindi: एड्रेनालाईन ? (eḍrenālāīn)
• Hungarian: adrenalin (hu)
• Ido: adrenalino (io)
• Indonesian: adrenalin (id)
• Irish: aidréanailín m
• Italian: adrenalina (it) f
• Japanese: アドレナリン (ja) (adorenarin), エピネフリン (epinefurin)
• Korean: 아드레날린 (adeurenallin), 에피네프린 (epinepeurin)
• Malay: adrenalina
• Maltese: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: adrenalin (no) n

  Nynorsk: adrenalin n

• Polish: adrenalina (pl) f
• Portuguese: adrenalina (pt) f
• Romanian: adrenalină (ro) f
• Russian: адренали́н (ru) m (adrenalín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: адрена̀лӣн m

  Latin: adrenàlīn (sh) m

• Slovak: adrenalín (sk) m inan, epinefrín m inan
• Slovene: adrenalin
• Spanish: adrenalina (es) f
• Swahili: adrenalini (sw)
• Swedish: adrenalin (sv) n
• Tagalog: adrenalina
• Thai: ฮอร์โมนเนื้อในต่อมหมวกไต
• Turkish: adrenalin (tr)
• Ukrainian: адреналі́н (uk) m (adrenalín)
• Vietnamese: adrenalin (vi)
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

excitement

• Japanese: 脳汁 (ja) (nōjiru)
• Polish: adrenalina (pl) f

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English adrenaline.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ.dreː.naːˈli.nə/, /aː.dreː.naːˈli.nə/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: adre‧na‧li‧ne
• Rhymes: -inə

Noun

adrenaline f (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. adrenaline [from 1902]
   • 1902 June 28, "Adrenaline.", Algemeen Handelsblad, fol. 2, Vol. 75, No. 23391, page 6 (page 2 of fol. 2).

Italian

Noun

adrenaline f pl

1. plural of adrenalina