szublimál

Hungarian

Etymology

From German sublimieren, from Latin sublimare, sublimatum.[1] With the verb-forming suffix -ál.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsublimaːl]
  • Hyphenation: szub‧li‧mál
  • Rhymes: -aːl

Verb

szublimál

  1. (transitive, physics) to sublimate (to change state from a solid to a gas without passing through the liquid state)
  2. (transitive, psychoanalysis) to sublimate (to modify the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct in a socially acceptable manner; to divert the energy of such an instinct into some acceptable activity)

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • szublimálás
  • szublimáció

References

  1. Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading

  • szublimál in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
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