Where does “TBHQ” come from?
TBHQ (English) comes from English tert-butylhydroquinone, from English hydroquinone, from English quinone, from English quinic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem — in.
TBHQ (English): A particular preservative of fats and oils, used...
Definitions
- A particular preservative of fats and oils, used...
Ancestry of “TBHQ”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | tert-butylhydroquinone | A preservative of fats and oils, used in food. An... |
| 2 | English | hydroquinone | The diphenol para-dihydroxy benzene, used as a... |
| 3 | English | quinone | Any of a class of aromatic compounds having two... |
| 4 | English | quinic | Of, pertaining to, or derived from quinine |
| 5 | English | -ic | Used to form adjectives from nouns with the... |
| 6 | English | image | An optical or other representation of a real... |
| 7 | French | image | picture, image; frame; first-person singular... |
| 8 | Portuguese | imagem | image; picture; figure; image; image; face |
| 9 | Spanish | imagen | image |
| 10 | Italian | immagine | image; imago |
| 11 | Latin | imāginem | — |
| 12 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 13 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 14 | Latin | în | — |
| 15 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 16 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |