Where does “tetracloroetilè” come from?

tetracloroetilè (Catalan) comes from Italian etile, from Catalan -è, from Latin -ēnus, from Proto-Indo-European -nós — Creates verbal adjectives from roots.

tetracloroetilè (Catalan): tetrachloroethylene

Definitions

  1. tetrachloroethylene

Ancestry of “tetracloroetilè”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianetileethyl
2Catalan-èUsed to form an ordinal number from a cardinal...
3Latin-ēnusOf or pertaining to; -ine
4Proto-Indo-European-nósCreates verbal adjectives from roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -nós →Every word from Latin -ēnus →Every word from Catalan -è →