gasolene

Meaning

Noun

• Alternate spelling of gasoline

Origin

• From Cazeline (possibly influenced by Gazeline, the name of an Irish copy), a brand of petroleum-derived lighting oil, from the surname of the man who first marketed it in 1862, John Cassell, and the suffix –eline, from Greek ἔλαιον, from ἐλαία. Gasolene is found from 1863, and gasoline from 1864.