Where does “acrosyndesis” come from?

acrosyndesis (English) comes from English acro, from English acrobatic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine — in.

acrosyndesis (English): The pairing of homologous telomeres during meiosis

Definitions

  1. The pairing of homologous telomeres during meiosis

Ancestry of “acrosyndesis”, step by step

acrosyndesis traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English acro

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishacroof or pertaining to something that combines...
2EnglishacrobaticOf or pertaining to an acrobat; vigorously active
3English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
4EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
5Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
6Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
7Spanishimagenimage
8Italianimmagineimage; imago
9Latinimāginem
10Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
11Latinīn-un-, non-, not
12Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
13Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
14Proto-Italicenin
15Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

via English syndesis

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsyndesisArthrodesis; Synapsis; The use of a syndetic...
2Ancient Greekσύνδεσιςbinding together
3Ancient Greekσυνδέωtie together, bind together
4Ancient Greekσῠν-together; with, together
5Ancient Greekσύνbeside, with
6Proto-Hellenic*ksúnbeside, with
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁énEvery word from Latin īn-Every word from Proto-Italic en