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Where does “benzoate” come from?

Benzoate comes from English benzoic, from Latin -atus, from Proto-Italic -ātos, from Proto-Indo-European -tós, a suffix forming adjectives from verbal roots.

benzoate (English): Any salt or ester of benzoic acid

Definitions

  1. Any salt or ester of benzoic acid

Ancestry of “benzoate”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishbenzoicPertaining to, or obtained from, benzoin; Derived...
2English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
3EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
4Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
5Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
6Spanishimagenimage
7Italianimmagineimage; imago
8Latinimāginem—
9Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
10Latinīn-—
11Latinîn—
12Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
13Proto-Italicenin
14Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “benzoate”

  • benzocaine
  • hydroxybenzoate
  • chlorobenzoate
  • nitrobenzoate
  • bromobenzoate
  • fluorobenzoate
  • thiobenzoate
  • thionitrobenzoate
  • sulfobenzoate
  • iodobenzoate
  • acetamidobenzoate
  • orthobenzoate
  • sulphobenzoate
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