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-yl

Chemistry.
a suffix used in the names of radicals: ethyl.

Origin:
< F -yle < Gk hȳ́lē matter, wood, substance
-yl  
suff.   An organic acid radical: carbonyl.

[French -yle, from Greek hūlē, wood, matter.]
-yl  
A suffix used to form the chemical names of organic compounds when they are radicals (parts of larger compounds), such as ethyl and phenyl.

-yl suff.
A monovalent organic acid radical: carbonyl.

-yl

-yl\ [Gr. ? wood, material.] (Chem.) A suffix used as a characteristic termination of chemical radicals; as in ethyl, carbonyl, hydroxyl, etc.

Note: -yl was first used in 1832 by Liebig and W["o]hler in naming benzoyl, in the sense of stuff, or fundamental material, then in 1834 by Dumas and Peligot in naming methyl, in the sense of wood. After this -yl was generally used as in benzoyl, in the sense of stuff, characteristic ground, fundamental material.

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