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Where does “heptadecameric” come from?

heptadecameric (English) comes from English heptadecamer, from English heptadeca-, from English deca-, from French déca-, from Latin decās, from Ancient Greek δεκάς, from Ancient Greek -ᾰ́ς, from Proto-Indo-European -ónts — sound, voice.

heptadecameric (English): of or pertaining to a heptadecamer

Definitions

  1. of or pertaining to a heptadecamer

Ancestry of “heptadecameric”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishheptadecamerAn oligomer having seventeen subunits
2Englishheptadeca-seventeen
3Englishdeca-Greek number...
4Frenchdéca-deca-
5Latindecās—
6Ancient Greekδεκάςthe number ten; a group of ten, decade
7Ancient Greek-ᾰ́ςgroup of
8Proto-Indo-European-óntsDerives nouns denoting body parts
9Hungarianöntto pour; to cast; accusative singular of ön
10Hungarianönyou
11Hungarianön-self-
12Turkishönfront
13Ottoman Turkishاوك—
14Proto-Turkicǖnsound, voice
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