el

masculine

/ɡas/

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Translation

gas

Word origin

Coined in the early seventeenth century by the Flemish chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont, who based the word on Greek khaos ('chaos, void'). It passed into Spanish and other languages from there.

Origin: Greek
Root: khaos
English cognates: gas, chaos

Grammar

Gendermasculine

Pluralgases

Examples

There is no gas left in the kitchen.

The car ran out of gas.

Cierra .

Turn off the gas before you leave.

Gas is more expensive this year.

It smelled of gas in the room.

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This word is part of lesson 27.