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Where does “anthraquinone” come from?

anthraquinone (English) comes from English quinone, from English quinic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine — in.

anthraquinone (English): A tricyclic quinone, derived from anthracene; Any...

Definitions

  1. A tricyclic quinone, derived from anthracene; Any...

Ancestry of “anthraquinone”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishquinoneAny of a class of aromatic compounds having two...
2EnglishquinicOf, pertaining to, or derived from quinine
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-—
12Latinîn—
13Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
14Proto-Italicenin
15Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “anthraquinone”

  • hydroxyanthraquinone
  • dihydroxyanthraquinone
  • indanthrene
  • aminoanthraquinone
  • anthraquinonoid
  • trihydroxymethylanthraquinone
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