Where does “anticoagulant” come from?
Anticoagulant is a compound of English anti- and coagulant, from Latin coagulans and ἀντί, tracing to Proto-Indo-European roots meaning to drive or act against.
anticoagulant (English): A substance that prevents coagulation; that is,...
Definitions
- A substance that prevents coagulation; that is,...
Ancestry of “anticoagulant”, step by step
anticoagulant traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English coagulant
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | coagulant | That causes coagulation or that coagulates; A... |
| 2 | Latin | coagulans | thickening, coagulant, coagulative |
| 3 | Latin | coāgulō | to curdle; make thick, solid |
| 4 | Latin | coāgulum | tie, bond, binding agent |
| 5 | Latin | cōgō | to collect, assemble, gather together |
| 6 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 7 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 8 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 12 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 13 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 14 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 15 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 16 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
via French coagulant
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | coagulant | present participle of coaguler |