Where does “heneicosapentaenoic acid” come from?

heneicosapentaenoic acid (English) comes from English -oic, from English benzoic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine — in.

heneicosapentaenoic acid (English): The omega-3 fatty acid (6Z,9Z,12Z,15Z,18Z)-henicosa-6,9,12,15,18-pentaenoic acid

Definitions

  1. The omega-3 fatty acid (6Z,9Z,12Z,15Z,18Z)-henicosa-6,9,12,15,18-pentaenoic acid

Ancestry of “heneicosapentaenoic acid”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-oicused to form the names of carboxylic groups and...
2EnglishbenzoicPertaining to, or obtained from, benzoin; Derived...
3English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
4EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
5Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
6Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
7Spanishimagenimage
8Italianimmagineimage; imago
9Latinimāginem
10Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
11Latinīn-un-, non-, not
12Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
13Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
14Proto-Italicenin
15Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én