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Where does “butanoate” come from?

butanoate (English) comes from English butanoic, from English -oic, from English benzoic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen — in.

butanoate (English): Any salt or ester of butanoic acid

Definitions

  1. Any salt or ester of butanoic acid

Ancestry of “butanoate”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishbutanoicOf or pertaining to butanoic acid or its...
2English-oicused to form the names of carboxylic groups and...
3EnglishbenzoicPertaining to, or obtained from, benzoin; Derived...
4English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
5EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
6Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
7Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
8Spanishimagenimage
9Italianimmagineimage; imago
10Latinimāginem—
11Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
12Latinīn-—
13Latinîn—
14Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
15Proto-Italicenin
16Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “butanoate”

  • oxobutanoate
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →