caproic acid

From Latin caper (“goat”) because of its smell.

caproic acid (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) A liquid fatty acid, CH₃(CH₂)₄COOH, obtained from animal fats, and used in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and flavours.

• hexanoic acid

• caproate, hexanoate (coordinate as a base versus an acid, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution)

• aminocaproic acid

• capric acid
• caprylic acid

• “caproic acid”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “caproic acid”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.