fermentation - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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From Middle English fermentacioun, from Latin fermentātiō, fermentātiōnem.
fermentation (countable and uncountable, plural fermentations)
- (biochemistry) Any of many anaerobic biochemical reactions in which an enzyme (or several enzymes produced by a microorganism) catalyses the conversion of one substance into another; especially the conversion (using yeast) of sugars to alcohol or acetic acid with the evolution of carbon dioxide
- A state of agitation or excitement; a ferment.
1678, Jeremy Taylor, “The History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […]. The First Part.”, in Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC, ad section IX (Considerations upon the Baptizing, Fasting, and Temptation of the Holy Jesus by the Devil), discourse IV (Of Baptism), part II (Of Baptizing Infants), page 130:
[T]he Grace that is then given to us is like a piece of Leven put into a lump of dough, and Faith and Repentance do in all the periods of our life put it into fermentation and activity.
1852 January – 1853 April, Charles Kingsley, Jun., “Preface”, in Hypatia: Or, New Foes with an Old Face. […], volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], published 1853, →OCLC, pages xi–xii:
The universal fusion of races, languages, and customs, which had gone on for four centuries under Roman rule, had produced a corresponding fusion of creeds, an universal fermentation of human thought and faith.
- alcoholic fermentation
- autofermentation
- biofermentation
- bottom fermentation
- cofermentation
- fermentational
- fermentation lock
- gut fermentation syndrome
- heterofermentation
- homofermentation
- homolactic fermentation
- lactofermentation
- malolactic fermentation
- microfermentation
- multifermentation
- nonfermentation
- overfermentation
- photofermentation
- postfermentation
- prefermentation
- refermentation
- respirofermentation
- secondary fermentation
- semifermentation
- top fermentation
- underfermentation
anaerobic biochemical reaction
- Bulgarian: ферментация f (fermentacija)
- Catalan: fermentació (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Czech: kvašení n
- Danish: fermentering c, gæring c
- Dutch: fermentatie (nl), gisting (nl)
- Finnish: käyminen (fi)
- Galician: fermentación (gl) f
- Georgian: დუღილი (duɣili), ფერმენტაცია (permenṭacia)
- German: Fermentation f, Gärung (de) f
- Greek: ζύμωση (el) f (zýmosi)
- Indonesian: fermentasi (id), peragian (id)
- Irish: coipeadh m
- Italian: fermentazione (it) f
- Japanese: 発酵 (ja), 醗酵 (ja) (はっこう, hakkō)
- Korean: 발효(醱酵) (ko) (balhyo)
- Kurdish:
- Latvian: rūgšana f
- Macedonian: вриење n (vrienje), ферментација f (fermentacija)
- Malay: penapaian (ms)
- Maori: whakamoītanga
- Mongolian: исэлт (iselt), хөөлт (mn) (xöölt)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: gjæring m or f, fermentering m or f
- Nynorsk: gjæring f, fermentering f
- Occitan: fermentacion (oc) f
- Polish: fermentacja (pl) f
- Portuguese: fermentação (pt) f
- Quechua: p'uchquy
- Romanian: fermentare (ro) f, fermentație (ro) f
- Russian: фермента́ция (ru) f (fermentácija), броже́ние (ru) n (brožénije)
- Slovene: vrenje n
- Spanish: fermentación (es) f
- Swedish: jäsning (sv) c, fermentering (sv) c
- Tagalog: pagbuburo, pamamanis, pagkapanis
- Turkish: fermantasyon (tr)
- Ukrainian: броді́ння (uk) n (brodínnja), ферментува́ння n (fermentuvánnja)
- Vietnamese: lên men (vi)
- Volapük: färmäntam
Borrowed from Latin fermentātiōnem.
fermentation f (plural fermentations)
- → Romanian: fermentație
- → Turkish: fermantasyon
- “fermentation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.