Where does “chloroleukemia” come from?

chloroleukemia (English) comes from English chloro, from English genic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine — in.

Ancestry of “chloroleukemia”, step by step

chloroleukemia traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English chloro

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishchloro
2Englishgenicof, relating to, produced by, or being a gene
3English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
4EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
5Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
6Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
7Spanishimagenimage
8Italianimmagineimage; imago
9Latinimāginem
10Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
11Latinīn-un-, non-, not
12Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
13Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
14Proto-Italicenin
15Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

via English leukemia

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishleukemiaA type of malignancy affecting the blood cells or...
2GermanLeukämieleukemia
3German-ämie-aemia, -emia
4Ancient Greekαἷμαblood
5Latinglobusany round object; a sphere; a globe; a glob,...
6Proto-Indo-Europeangel-to be cold, to freeze
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én
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