Acetous Definition

ə-sētəs, ăsĭ-təs
adjective
Of, relating to, or producing acetic acid or vinegar.
American Heritage
Of, producing, or like vinegar; sour.
Webster's New World
Having an acetic taste; sour-tasting.
American Heritage

Having a sour taste; sour; acid.

Wiktionary

Causing, or connected with, acetification; as, acetous fermentation.

Wiktionary
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Origin of Acetous

  • Middle English sour from Medieval Latin acētōsus vinegary from Latin acētum vinegar acetum

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin acetum (“vinegar”), from acere (“to be sour”).

    From Wiktionary

Acetous Sentence Examples

  • It is strained, deprived of its moisture, and receives an admixture of gamboge, cinnabar, acetous protoxide or some other coloring matter.

  • For he proved that the various changes occurring in the several processes of fermentation - as, for example, in the vinous, where alcohol is the chief product; in the acetous, where vinegar appears; and in the lactic, where milk turns sour - are invariably due to the presence and' growth of minute organisms called ferments.

  • It is medicinally superior to gum acacia, as it does not undergo acetous fermentation.

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