Where does “antiinfective” come from?
antiinfective (English) comes from English infective, from English infect, from Middle French infect, from Latin infectus, from Latin īnficiō, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius.
antiinfective (English): antiinfection; A drug that prevents or...
Definitions
- antiinfection; A drug that prevents or...
Ancestry of “antiinfective”, step by step
antiinfective traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English infective
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | infective | Able to cause infection; infectious; A person who... |
| 2 | English | infect | To bring into contact with a substance that... |
| 3 | Middle French | infect | — |
| 4 | Latin | infectus | not done, undone; unfinished; impossible |
| 5 | Latin | īnficiō | to dip, to dunk, to submerge |
| 6 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 7 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 8 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 9 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |