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Where does “acrosin” come from?

acrosin (English) comes from English acrosome, from English acro, from English acrobatic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen — in.

acrosin (English): A proteolytic enzyme, found in the acrosome of...

Definitions

  1. A proteolytic enzyme, found in the acrosome of...

Ancestry of “acrosin”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishacrosomeA structure forming the end of the head of a...
2Englishacroof or pertaining to something that combines...
3EnglishacrobaticOf or pertaining to an acrobat; vigorously active
4English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
5EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
6Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
7Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
8Spanishimagenimage
9Italianimmagineimage; imago
10Latinimāginem—
11Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
12Latinīn-—
13Latinîn—
14Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
15Proto-Italicenin
16Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “acrosin”

  • proacrosin
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