Dulcose
/ˈdʌlkoʊs/noun
An obsolete chemical name for a sugar or sugar-like carbohydrate.
Did you know?Dulcose belongs to an era when chemists regularly built sugar names from Latin dulcis, meaning “sweet,” rather than using today’s standardized carbohydrate terminology.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*dl̥k-u-
“Sweet; a reconstructed root associated with sweetness”
Classical Latin
Latin
dulcis
“Sweet, pleasant, or agreeable”
Medieval Latin
Latin
dulce
“Sweet substance or sweetness; a neuter form used substantively”
17th–18th Century
European scientific Latin
dulc-
“A learned combining form meaning sweet”
19th Century
English
dulcose
“A coined chemical term for a sugar or carbohydrate”
Modern English
English
dulcose
“An obsolete or highly technical name retained mainly in historical chemical vocabulary”