Ethanol is an example of an aldehyde.

Aldehyde is a class of organic compounds with a functional group "-CHO" and a suffix "-al". But, in the given statement, the compound is ethanol. This compound does not belong to the category of aldehyde as it contains "-ol" as a suffix in its name. We know that the suffix "-ol" is used for compounds that contain alcohol functional groups. Thus, the given statement is false.