Where does “beta blockade” come from?
beta blockade (English) comes from English blockade, from English block, from French Bloc, from Middle French bloc, from Old French bloc, from Dutch blok, from Middle Dutch blok, from Old Dutch blok — thick plank, beam, pile, prop.
beta blockade (English): The action of a beta blocker
Definitions
- The action of a beta blocker
Ancestry of “beta blockade”, step by step
beta blockade traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English blockade
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | blockade | The physical blocking or surrounding of a place,... |
| 2 | English | block | A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece... |
| 3 | French | Bloc | Bloc — Bloc Québécois (Bloc québécois) |
| 4 | Middle French | bloc | a considerable piece of something heavy, block |
| 5 | Old French | bloc | log, block |
| 6 | Dutch | blok | a block; a street block; a political bloc |
| 7 | Middle Dutch | blok | treetrunk |
| 8 | Old Dutch | blok | log |
| 9 | Proto-West Germanic | blokk | block, log |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | blukką | block, log |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bhulg'- | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | bhelg'- | thick plank, beam, pile, prop |
via English beta
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | beta | The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound of v found in the English words have and vase |
| 2 | Hindi | बेटा | son |
| 3 | Middle Hindi | بیٿا | — |