Definition
A substance added to food or drink to make it taste sweet, like sugar, honey, or artificial sweeteners like aspartame.
Etymology
From 'sweeten' (to make sweet) plus '-er' (agent noun). 'Sweeten' comes from Old English 'swete' (sweet) plus the suffix '-en' (to make). The word became especially common in the 20th century with artificial sweeteners.
Kelly Says
Artificial sweeteners are wild—saccharin (Sweet'N Low) was discovered by accident when a chemist at Johns Hopkins got it on his food, and stevia was used by Indigenous peoples in South America for centuries before Western science 'discovered' it in the 1800s.
Translations
ARالعربية
مُحلى
moo-h-lay
CACatalà
endulzant
en-dul-zan
DEDeutsch
Zucker
tsoo-ker
ELΕλληνικά
γλυκαντικό
gli-kan-ti-ko
ESEspañol
endulzante
en-dul-zan-te
FISuomi
makeutusaine
ma-keu-tu-sa-ine
FRFrançais
sucre
sook-ruh
HUMagyar
édesítő
e-des-i-to
IDBahasa Indonesia
penambah manis
pen-am-bah ma-nis
ITItaliano
dolcificante
dol-tsi-fi-kan-te
MSBahasa Melayu
penambah manis
pen-am-bah ma-nis
NLNederlands
zoetmaker
zweet-ma-ker
NONorsk
søtningsmiddel
soet-ning-sme-del
PLPolski
cukier
tsoo-kier
PTPortuguês
edulcorante
e-dul-ko-ran-te
RORomână
îndulcitor
in-dul-ci-tor
RUРусский
сладкое
s-lad-koe
SVSvenska
sötämne
soet-a-mne
SWKiswahili
mchanganyiko wa tamu
m-chan-ga-ny-i-ko wa ta-mu
TAதமிழ்
சர்க்கரை
sar-ka-rai
TLTL
pagsasaya
pa-gsa-sa-ya
TRTürkçe
tatlandırıcı
tat-lan-dir-i-ci
UKУкраїнська
солодкість
so-lod-kist
VITiếng Việt
hạt đường
hat duong
ZUZU
isibhalo
ee-si-ba-lo