Where does “bioaccumulator” come from?
bioaccumulator (English) comes from English accumulator, from Latin accumulator, from Latin accumulō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
bioaccumulator (English): A biological or biochemical accumulator
Definitions
- A biological or biochemical accumulator
Ancestry of “bioaccumulator”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | accumulator | One who, or that which, accumulates; A wet-cell... |
| 2 | Latin | accumulator | second-person singular future passive imperative... |
| 3 | Latin | accumulō | to add to a heap, heap or pile up, accumulate, load, amass |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |