Where does “carbubarb” come from?
carbubarb (English) comes from English carbamate, from English carbamic, from English carbamide, from English amide, from English -ide, from Middle French -ide, from Latin -is, from Latin -a.
carbubarb (English): A carbamate-substituted barbiturate derivative...
Definitions
- A carbamate-substituted barbiturate derivative...
Ancestry of “carbubarb”, step by step
carbubarb traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English carbamate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | carbamate | Any salt or ester of carbamic acid |
| 2 | English | carbamic | Of or pertaining to carbamic acid or its... |
| 3 | English | carbamide | urea |
| 4 | English | amide | Any derivative of an oxoacid in which the... |
| 5 | English | -ide | Any of a group of related compounds - azide,... |
| 6 | Middle French | -ide | id (dynast) |
| 7 | Latin | -is | suffixed to the root of nouns in composition,... |
| 8 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -ā | Forms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |
via English barbiturate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | barbiturate | Any salt or ester of barbituric acid; Any of... |
| 2 | German | Barbiturat | barbiturate |
| 3 | French | barbiturique | barbiturate |
| 4 | German | Barbitursäure | — |
| 5 | German | Barbara | popular especially in the mid-twentieth century |
| 6 | Latin | barbara | a wild, savage, cruel, barbarous, shameless, or... |
| 7 | Latin | barbarus | foreign; savage; uncivilized |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | βάρβαρος | non-Greek-speaking, foreign; barbaric, brutal,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | balb- | — |