Where does “安多芬” come from?

安多芬 (Chinese) comes from English endorphin, from French endorphine, from French morphine, from French -ine, from French -é, from Middle French -é, from Old French -é, from Latin -a.

安多芬 (Chinese): endorphin

Definitions

  1. endorphin

Ancestry of “安多芬”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishendorphinAny of a group of peptide hormones found in the...
2Frenchendorphineendorphin
3Frenchmorphinemorphine
4French-inefeminine singular of -in; female equivalent of...
5French-épast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
6Middle French-épast participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n
7Old French-éused to form past participles of regular -er...
8Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
9Proto-Italic-āForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
10Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →Every word from French -ine →Every word from Latin -a →