Where does “dexpramipexole” come from?

dexpramipexole (English) comes from English pramipexole, from English amino, from English amino-, from English amine, from English -ine, from French -ine, from French -é, from Middle French -é.

dexpramipexole (English): An experimental drug being investigated for the...

Definitions

  1. An experimental drug being investigated for the...

Ancestry of “dexpramipexole”, step by step

dexpramipexole traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English pramipexole

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpramipexoleA dopamine agonist administered in the form of...
2EnglishaminoRelating to an amine; The amine functional group
3Englishamino-Of amines and of the amino functional group
4EnglishamineA functional group formally derived from ammonia...
5English-ineOf or pertaining to; Used to form demonyms;...
6French-inefeminine singular of -in; female equivalent of...
7French-épast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
8Middle French-épast participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n
9Old French-éused to form past participles of regular -er...
10Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
11Proto-Italic-āForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
12Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—

via English dex

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishdexAn order or factor of ten; Dexterity;...
2EnglishdecimalA number expressed in the base-ten system, a...
3Medieval Latindecimalis—
4LatinDecimusoriginally used for a tenth-born son
5Latindecemten; 10
6Latin-nus-an
7Proto-Italic-nosCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →Every word from English -ine →Every word from French -ine →