# aerosol
## English
### Etymology

From aero- +‎ sol (“solution”).

### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /ˈɛɚ.əˌsɔl/
** (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˈɛɚ.əˌsɑl/
* (UK) IPA: /ˈɛə.ɹəˌsɒl/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

aerosol (plural aerosols)
* A mixture of fine solid particles or liquid droplets suspended in a gaseous medium.
    Examples of common aerosols are mist, fog, and smoke.
* An aerosol can.
* The payload (e.g. insecticide, paint, oil, cosmetics) and propellant contained by an aerosol can.
* (physics) A colloidal system in which the dispersed phase is composed of either solid or liquid particles and in which the dispersal medium is some gas, usually air.

#### Derived terms

* aerosol bomb
* aerosol cheese
* aerosolisation
* aerosolise
* aerosolization
* aerosolize
* aerosol string
* bioaerosol
* microaerosol
* nonaerosol

#### Descendants

* → Cebuano: ayrosol
* → Irish: aerasól
* → Punjabi: ਐਰੋਸੋਲ (airosol)
* → Welsh: erosol

#### Translations
### Verb

aerosol (third-person singular simple present aerosols, present participle aerosoling, simple past and past participle aerosoled)
* (transitive) To spray with an aerosol.
** 1958, Cooperative Economic Insect Report, page 727:The door entrance and space going up the steps was aerosoled just before passengers started to enter. A second spray was given after they were aboard.

#### Translations
### References

* Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “aerosol”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
* “aerosol”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* roseola

## Basque
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish aerosol (“aerosol”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aeɾos̺ol/ [a.e.ɾo.s̺ol]
* Rhymes: -os̺ol, -ol
* Hyphenation: a‧e‧ro‧sol

### Noun

aerosol inan
* aerosol
* aerosol can

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “aerosol”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [əˌe.ɾuˈsɔl]
* IPA: (Balearic) [əˌe.ɾoˈsɔl]
* IPA: (Valencia) [aˌe.ɾoˈsɔl]

### Noun

aerosol m (plural aerosols)
* aerosol

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈaɛrosol]

### Noun

aerosol m inan
* aerosol

#### Derived terms

* aerosolový

### Further reading

* “aerosol”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
* “aerosol”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “aerosol”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Affixed aero- +‎ *sol, from English aerosol.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [aeˈrosɔl]
* Hyphenation: aé‧ro‧sol

### Noun

aerosol (plural)
* (chemistry, physics) aerosol

#### Related terms

* aerosolisasi

### Further reading

* “aerosol” 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.

## Italian
### Etymology

From aero- +‎ sol.

### Noun

aerosol m (invariable)
* aerosol (all senses)

#### Derived terms

* aerosolizzare

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From aero- +‎ sol (solution).

### Noun

aerosol m (definite singular aerosolen, indefinite plural aerosoler, definite plural aerosolene)
* an aerosol

### References

* “aerosol” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From aero- +‎ sol (solution).

### Noun

aerosol m (definite singular aerosolen, indefinite plural aerosolar, definite plural aerosolane)
* an aerosol

### References

* “aerosol” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Aerosol. First attested in 1932.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.ɛˈrɔ.sɔl/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔsɔl
* Syllabification: a‧e‧ro‧sol

### Noun

aerosol m inan
* (rare) Alternative form of aerozol

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Alexander Lustig (1932) Patologja ogólna i klinika zagazowań bojowych‎, page 262

### Further reading

* aerosol in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French aérosol.

### Noun

aerosol m (plural aerosoli)
* aerosol

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /âerosoːl/
* Hyphenation: a‧e‧ro‧sol

### Noun

ȁerosōl m (Cyrillic spelling а̏еросо̄л)
* aerosol

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aeɾoˈsol/ [a.e.ɾoˈsol]
* Rhymes: -ol
* Syllabification: a‧e‧ro‧sol

### Noun

aerosol m (plural aerosoles)
* aerosol (gaseous or airborne cloud of particulate matter)

#### Derived terms

* aerosol de pimienta

### Further reading

* “aerosol”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10