Where does “dibutylphthalate” come from?
dibutylphthalate (English) comes from English phthalate, from English naphthalic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine — in.
dibutylphthalate (English): Alternative form of dibutyl phthalate
Definitions
- Alternative form of dibutyl phthalate
Ancestry of “dibutylphthalate”, step by step
dibutylphthalate traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English phthalate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | phthalate | Any salt or ester of a phthalic acid |
| 2 | English | naphthalic | Of, pertaining to, yielding, or derived from... |
| 3 | English | -ic | Used to form adjectives from nouns with the... |
| 4 | English | image | An optical or other representation of a real... |
| 5 | French | image | picture, image; frame; first-person singular... |
| 6 | Portuguese | imagem | image; picture; figure; image; image; face |
| 7 | Spanish | imagen | image |
| 8 | Italian | immagine | image; imago |
| 9 | Latin | imāginem | — |
| 10 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 11 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 12 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 13 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via English dibutyl
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | dibutyl | Two butyl groups in a molecule |
| 2 | English | butyl | Any of four isomeric univalent hydrocarbon... |
| 3 | English | -yl | A univalent radical or functional group formed... |
| 4 | French | méthylène | methylene |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | μέθυ | wine |
| 6 | Proto-Hellenic | métʰu | intoxicating drink; mead |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | médʰu | honey; honey wine, mead |