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English word ketone comes from Latin aceo, Latin acere, and later Latin acetum ((figuratively) wit, shrewdness. Vinegar.)

aceo (Latin)

(figuratively, Late Latin) I am disagreeable.. (of wine) I am sour.

acere (Latin)

acetum (Latin)

(figuratively) wit, shrewdness. Vinegar.

acétone (French)

(organic compound) acetone.

Aketon (German)

Keton (German)

(organic chemistry) ketone.

ketone (English)

(organic compound) A homologous series of organic molecules whose functional group is an oxygen atom joined to a carbon atom—by a double bond—in a carbon-hydrogen based molecule.

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