Where does “cycloolefin” come from?
cycloolefin (English) comes from English olefin, from English olefiant, from French gaz oléfiant, from French -ole, from Latin -olus, from Latin -lus, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
cycloolefin (English): cycloalkene
Definitions
- cycloalkene
Ancestry of “cycloolefin”, step by step
cycloolefin traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English olefin
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | olefin | Any of a class of unsaturated open-chain... |
| 2 | English | olefiant | That produces oil |
| 3 | French | gaz oléfiant | — |
| 4 | French | -ole | added to a noun to form a diminutive, or a... |
| 5 | Latin | -olus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming diminutives";... |
| 6 | Latin | -lus | Alternative form of -ulus; diminutive suffix |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via English cyclo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | cyclo | A tuk-tuk; A cycle rickshaw |
| 2 | English | O | A blood type that lacks A or B antigens and may... |
| 3 | Middle English | O | — |
| 4 | Old English | o | ever, always |
| 5 | Latin | o | The name of the letter "O"; o!; oh! |
| 6 | Etruscan | 𐌏 | — |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | ο | Lower-case omicron (ὂ μικρόν), the 15th letter of the ancient Greek alphabet. It represented the close-mid back rounded vowel. It is preceded by ξ and followed by π |
| 8 | Phoenician | 𐤏 | ayin; ʿayin |
| 9 | Egyptian | 𓁹 | — |