Where does “collagenous” come from?

Collagenous derives from English collagen, from French collagène, from Ancient Greek κόλλα meaning glue, with the suffix -osus denoting abundance or full of a quality.

collagenous (English): Of, pertaining to, or resembling collagen

Definitions

Of, pertaining to, or resembling collagen

Ancestry of “collagenous”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	English	-ous	Used to form adjectives from nouns, to denote...
2	Middle English	-ous	—
3	Old French	-us	-ous, used for forming adjectives
4	Latin	-ōsus	ose, -ous, -ful (full of or overly prone to)
5	Old Latin	-ōssus	—

Words derived from “collagenous”

noncollagenous
extracollagenous
fibrocollagenous

Every word from Old Latin -ōssus →Every word from Latin -ōsus →Every word from English -ous →