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Where does “aspartate” come from?

Aspartate comes from aspartic, which derives from asparagus via Latin sparagus and Ancient Greek ἀσπάραγος, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -tós.

aspartate (English): Any salt or ester of aspartic acid

Definitions

  1. Any salt or ester of aspartic acid

Ancestry of “aspartate”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishasparticOf or pertaining to aspartic acid or its...
2EnglishasparagineA nonessential amino acid CHNO found in plants...
3Frenchasparagineasparagine
4French-inefeminine singular of -in; female equivalent of...
5French-épast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
6Middle French-é—
7Old French-éused to form past participles of regular -er...
8Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
9Proto-Italic-ā—
10Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—

Words derived from “aspartate”

  • aspartase
  • isoaspartate
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →