Where does “citalopram” come from?
Citalopram is a modern English coinage combining elements from Latin and Ancient Greek roots, though its precise original meaning in Ancient Greek remains unattested.
citalopram (English): A drug that functions as a SSRI and is...
Definitions
- A drug that functions as a SSRI and is...
Ancestry of “citalopram”, step by step
citalopram traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English phthalimide
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | phthalimide | The imide of phthalic acid; it is used in the... |
| 2 | English | phthalic | of, relating to, or derived from naphthalene or... |
| 3 | English | naphthalic | Of, pertaining to, yielding, or derived from... |
| 4 | English | -ic | Used to form adjectives from nouns with the... |
| 5 | English | image | An optical or other representation of a real... |
| 6 | French | image | picture, image; frame; first-person singular... |
| 7 | Portuguese | imagem | image; picture; figure; image; image; face |
| 8 | Spanish | imagen | image |
| 9 | Italian | immagine | image; imago |
| 10 | Latin | imāginem | — |
| 11 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 12 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 13 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 14 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 15 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via English propylamine
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | propylamine | Either of two amines derived from propane, but... |
| 2 | English | amine | A functional group formally derived from ammonia... |
| 3 | English | -ine | Of or pertaining to; Used to form demonyms;... |
| 4 | French | -ine | feminine singular of -in; female equivalent of... |
| 5 | French | -é | past participle root verb suffix of regular -er... |
| 6 | Middle French | -é | past participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n |
| 7 | Old French | -é | used to form past participles of regular -er... |
| 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 | — |