Where does “abscisate” come from?

abscisate (English) comes from English abscisic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine, from Latin imāginem — in.

abscisate (English): Any salt or ester of abscisic acid

Definitions

  1. Any salt or ester of abscisic acid

Ancestry of “abscisate”, step by step

abscisate traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English abscisic

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishabscisicOf or pertaining to abscisic acid or its...
2English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
3EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
4Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
5Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
6Spanishimagenimage
7Italianimmagineimage; imago
8Latinimāginem
9Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
10Latinīn-un-, non-, not
11Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
12Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
13Proto-Italicenin
14Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

via English ate

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishatesimple past tense of eat; past participle of eat
2Middle Englishet
3Old Englishæteating; at a certain place; at a certain time
4Proto-Turkicātname
5Proto-Germanicētąthe act of eating; food
6Proto-Germanicetanąto eat
7Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁édtito eat
8Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁ed-to eat
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁énEvery word from Latin īn-Every word from Proto-Italic en