See eosin on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "de",
"3": "Eosin"
},
"expansion": "German Eosin",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "ἠώς",
"4": "",
"5": "dawn"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek ἠώς (ēṓs, “dawn”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from German Eosin, coined by Heinrich Caro, from Ancient Greek ἠώς (ēṓs, “dawn”) + -in.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "eosins",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "eosin (countable and uncountable, plural eosins)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Catalan translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Italian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Dyes",
"orig": "en:Dyes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Organic compounds",
"orig": "en:Organic compounds",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "carboxyeosin"
},
{
"word": "eosin B"
},
{
"word": "eosinic"
},
{
"word": "eosinic acid"
},
{
"word": "eosinocyte"
},
{
"word": "eosinopoiesis"
},
{
"word": "eosinotactic"
},
{
"word": "eosinotaxis"
},
{
"word": "eosin Y"
},
{
"word": "H&E"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
42,
47
]
],
"ref": "1999, Dan J. Goldstein, Understanding the Light Microscope, page 91:",
"text": "Thus the fluorescence of the familiar dye eosin can be excited quite well by ultra-violet or short-wave blue light, but is much better excited by visible green light with a wavelength close to that of the emitted radiation.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
0,
5
],
[
0,
6
],
[
44,
49
],
[
53,
58
],
[
106,
111
],
[
106,
112
]
],
"ref": "2000, J. Ochei, A. Kolhatkar, Medical Laboratory Science: Theory And Practice, page 450:",
"text": "Eosins are acid xanthene or phthalein dyes. Eosin Y, eosin B, phloxine and erythrosin (which unlike other eosins, is halogenated with iodine), are the common members of this group of dyes.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
20,
25
]
],
"ref": "2012, John D. Bancroft, Christopher Layton, “10: The hemotoxylins and eosin”, in S. Kim Suvarna, Christopher Layton, John D. Bancroft, editors, Bancroft's Theory and Practice of Histological Techniques, 7th edition, page 173:",
"text": "The hematoxylin and eosin stain (H&E) is the most widely used histological stain.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A red, acidic dye commonly used in histological stains."
],
"id": "en-eosin-en-noun-UWi5bkPG",
"links": [
[
"organic chemistry",
"organic chemistry"
],
[
"red",
"red"
],
[
"dye",
"dye"
],
[
"histological",
"histological"
],
[
"stain",
"stain"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(organic chemistry) A red, acidic dye commonly used in histological stains."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "eosinophilic"
}
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"chemistry",
"natural-sciences",
"organic-chemistry",
"physical-sciences"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"sense": "red, acidic dye",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "eosina"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"sense": "red, acidic dye",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "eosine"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"sense": "red, acidic dye",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "roodsel"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "red, acidic dye",
"word": "eosiini"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "red, acidic dye",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "éosine"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "red, acidic dye",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Eosin"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "red, acidic dye",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "eosina"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "red, acidic dye",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "eosina"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "red, acidic dye",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "eosin"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Heinrich Caro"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈi.əsɪn/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-eosin.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/ca/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-eosin.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-eosin.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/ca/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-eosin.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-eosin.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
]
}
],
"word": "eosin"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "carboxyeosin"
},
{
"word": "eosin B"
},
{
"word": "eosinic"
},
{
"word": "eosinic acid"
},
{
"word": "eosinocyte"
},
{
"word": "eosinopoiesis"
},
{
"word": "eosinotactic"
},
{
"word": "eosinotaxis"
},
{
"word": "eosin Y"
},
{
"word": "H&E"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "de",
"3": "Eosin"
},
"expansion": "German Eosin",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "ἠώς",
"4": "",
"5": "dawn"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek ἠώς (ēṓs, “dawn”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from German Eosin, coined by Heinrich Caro, from Ancient Greek ἠώς (ēṓs, “dawn”) + -in.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "eosins",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "eosin (countable and uncountable, plural eosins)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "eosinophilic"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms borrowed from German",
"English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"English terms derived from German",
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"en:Dyes",
"en:Organic compounds"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
42,
47
]
],
"ref": "1999, Dan J. Goldstein, Understanding the Light Microscope, page 91:",
"text": "Thus the fluorescence of the familiar dye eosin can be excited quite well by ultra-violet or short-wave blue light, but is much better excited by visible green light with a wavelength close to that of the emitted radiation.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
0,
5
],
[
0,
6
],
[
44,
49
],
[
53,
58
],
[
106,
111
],
[
106,
112
]
],
"ref": "2000, J. Ochei, A. Kolhatkar, Medical Laboratory Science: Theory And Practice, page 450:",
"text": "Eosins are acid xanthene or phthalein dyes. Eosin Y, eosin B, phloxine and erythrosin (which unlike other eosins, is halogenated with iodine), are the common members of this group of dyes.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
20,
25
]
],
"ref": "2012, John D. Bancroft, Christopher Layton, “10: The hemotoxylins and eosin”, in S. Kim Suvarna, Christopher Layton, John D. Bancroft, editors, Bancroft's Theory and Practice of Histological Techniques, 7th edition, page 173:",
"text": "The hematoxylin and eosin stain (H&E) is the most widely used histological stain.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A red, acidic dye commonly used in histological stains."
],
"links": [
[
"organic chemistry",
"organic chemistry"
],
[
"red",
"red"
],
[
"dye",
"dye"
],
[
"histological",
"histological"
],
[
"stain",
"stain"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(organic chemistry) A red, acidic dye commonly used in histological stains."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"chemistry",
"natural-sciences",
"organic-chemistry",
"physical-sciences"
],
"wikipedia": [
"Heinrich Caro"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈi.əsɪn/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-eosin.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/ca/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-eosin.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-eosin.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/ca/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-eosin.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-eosin.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"sense": "red, acidic dye",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "eosina"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"sense": "red, acidic dye",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "eosine"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"sense": "red, acidic dye",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "roodsel"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "red, acidic dye",
"word": "eosiini"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "red, acidic dye",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "éosine"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "red, acidic dye",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Eosin"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "red, acidic dye",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "eosina"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "red, acidic dye",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "eosina"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "red, acidic dye",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "eosin"
}
],
"word": "eosin"
}
Download raw JSONL data for eosin meaning in All languages combined (4.7kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.