Chem. [f. L. cinnam-um cinnamon + -ATE.] A salt of cinnamic acid. Cinnamal = Cinnamic aldehyde. So Cinnameïn = benzyl-cinnamate C9 H7 O2 . C7 H7, a constituent of Peru and Tolu balsams, etc., crystallizing in shining prisms. Cinnamene, an aromatic hydro-carbon C8 H8, or C6 H5—C2 H3 (Ethenyl-benzene, phenyl-ethene), a very mobile and volatile colorless oil with a strong aromatic odor, obtained from cinnamic acid, storax, or the resin of Peru balsam; also called Cinnamol, and Styrol. Cinnamenyl-, a formative of names of acids, formed from cinnamic aldehyde, as cinnamenylacrylic, cinnamenylangelic. Cinnamic, of or pertaining to cinnamon, as in Cinnamic acid, C9 H8 O2, or C6 H5—C3 H2 O . OH (phenylacrylic acid), a monatomic aromatic acid obtained by the oxidation of cinnamon oil; cinnamic aldehide C9 H7 OH, cinnamic alcohol C9 H10 O etc. Cinnamide, the amide of cinnamyl C9 H7 O . H2 N, a white crystalline substance. Cinnamyl, the aromatic monatomic radical, C9 H7 O′, of cinnamic acid, etc.
1838. T. Thomson, Chem. Org. Bodies, 45. The cinnamate of silver.
1876. Harley, Mat. Med., 458. The cinnamates are monobasic.
1873. Watts, Fownes’ Chem., 771. Cinnamene is a very mobile, colourless oil.
1869. Roscoe, Elem. Chem., 420. It oxidizes first to cinnamyl aldehyde and then to cinnamic acid.
1881. Nature, XXIV. 229. Bertagnini, in 1856 … obtained cinnamic acid artificially from oil of bitter almonds.
1869. Roscoe, Elem. Chem., 419. Styrol, or Cinnamol, is found in liquid storax.
1838. T. Thomson, Chem. Org. Bodies, 44. The base of cinnamonic acid, to which they have given the name of cinnamoyl.
1876. Harley, Mat. Med., 457. Oil of cinnamon is composed of cinnamyl hydride.
Cinnambre, obs. form of CINNABAR.
