cyclamate

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An artificial sweetener used to make food taste sweet without calories

noun
/ˈsaɪkləˌmeɪt/

Specialized

: ciclamato

Many low-calorie foods and beverages contain cyclamate as an artificial sweetener.
cyclamate sweetener

Examples

From nuclear weapons to cyclamates, this is what is so unsettling about modern life.

Academic text (1993)
And even if we switch to cyclamates Instead, they're just as suspect.

Bliss (1985)
No cyclamates.

The Wizard of Gore (1970)
And I also know you've given up cigarettes and cyclamates because you're only thirty and want to live to be a hundred.

The Seven Minutes (1971)
Because of its sweetness, cyclamate is often added to products like soda and candy to reduce sugar content.
Some people prefer cyclamate over sugar because it has fewer calories while still providing a sweet taste.

Surface Forms

cyclamate singular

cyclamates plural

Morphology

cyclamate = cyclamic (opaque) = cyclam + ate

The word is a technical chemical name formed by a specialized stem plus the chemistry suffix '-ate'; average learners will not be able to derive its meaning from the components.

Etymology

Cyclamate comes from the prefix cyclo-, meaning 'ring' or 'circle' (as in bicycle or cycle), plus a chemical ending -amate that marks it as a type of salt, so cyclamate is the name for a ring-shaped chemical used as an artificial sweetener.