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
- Any salt or ester of benzoic acid
Ancestry of “benzoate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | benzoic | Pertaining to, or obtained from, benzoin; Derived... |
| 2 | English | -ic | Used to form adjectives from nouns with the... |
| 3 | English | image | An optical or other representation of a real... |
| 4 | French | image | picture, image; frame; first-person singular... |
| 5 | Portuguese | imagem | image; picture; figure; image; image; face |
| 6 | Spanish | imagen | image |
| 7 | Italian | immagine | image; imago |
| 8 | Latin | imāginem | — |
| 9 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 10 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 11 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 12 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
Words derived from “benzoate”
- benzocaine
- paraben
- hydroxybenzoate
- methylparaben
- chlorobenzoate
- propylparaben
- butylparaben
- nitrobenzoate
- ethylparaben
- bromobenzoate
- fluorobenzoate
- thiobenzoate
- sulfobenzoate
- thionitrobenzoate
- iodobenzoate
- acetamidobenzoate
- sulphobenzoate
- orthobenzoate
- bemesetron
- betoxycaine
- cyanobenzoate
- dibenzoate
- iodosobenzoate
- monobenzoate