Where does “antidepressant” come from?

I need to work through this chain carefully, but I notice there's a structural problem: the chain provided doesn't actually support "antidepressant" as a coherent etymology. The chain shows: - English depressant - English depress - Ancient Greek ἀντί (anti, meaning "against") - Proto-Indo-European h₂énti - Latin de (repeated four times) The issue is that "antidepressant" is composed of "anti-" + "depressant," but the chain doesn't properly trace "depressant" back through Latin and the other languages—it jumps to Ancient Greek for the "anti-" prefix, then shows only "de" from Latin, which doesn't account for "press" or the full formation of "depressant." Given the rules state "State only what the chain supports. Do not invent dates, cognates, or

antidepressant (English): An agent that prevents or counteracts depression;...

Definitions

  1. An agent that prevents or counteracts depression;...

Ancestry of “antidepressant”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishdepressantA pharmacological substance which decreases...
2English-antThe agent noun derived from verb; An adjective...
3Middle English-ant
4Old English-endeequivalent of English -ing; suffix for present...
5Proto-West Germanic*-andī
6Proto-Germanic-andz
7Proto-Indo-European-óntsDerives nouns denoting body parts
8Hungarianöntto pour; to cast; accusative singular of ön
9Hungarianönyou
10Hungarianön-self-
11Turkishönfront
12Ottoman Turkishاوكvoice (of human or animal); sound
13Proto-Turkicǖnsound, voice

Words derived from “antidepressant

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