Where does “deuterium” come from?

Deuterium comes from Latin -um, Latin -us, Old Latin -os, Proto-Italic -os, and Proto-Indo-European -ós, a nominal suffix forming agent nouns and masculine gender markers across Indo-European languages.

deuterium (English): An isotope of hydrogen formed of one proton and...

Definitions

  1. An isotope of hydrogen formed of one proton and...

Ancestry of “deuterium”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ancient Greekδεύτεροςsecond of two; second, next, another
2Proto-Indo-Europeandews-to lack, need, require

Words derived from “deuterium”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European dews- →Every word from Ancient Greek δεύτερος →