Where does “antiangiogenic” come from?
Antiangiogenic derives from the English prefix angio- combined with -genic, tracing through Ancient Greek ἀντί (anti-, against) and ἄγγος (angos, vessel) to Proto-Indo-European h₂ent- (against) and ǵenh₁- (to produce or beget).
antiangiogenic (English): That inhibits angiogenesis; Any drug of this kind
Definitions
- That inhibits angiogenesis; Any drug of this kind
Ancestry of “antiangiogenic”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | angiogenic | Relating to angiogenesis; Of or pertaining to... |
| 2 | English | -genic | producing or generating something; produced or... |
| 3 | English | -ic | Used to form adjectives from nouns with the... |
| 4 | English | image | An optical or other representation of a real... |
| 5 | French | image | picture, image; frame; first-person singular... |
| 6 | Portuguese | imagem | image; picture; figure; image; image; face |
| 7 | Spanish | imagen | image |
| 8 | Italian | immagine | image; imago |
| 9 | Latin | imāginem | — |
| 10 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 11 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 12 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 13 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |