Where does “heptanoate” come from?

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

heptanoate (English): any salt or ester of heptanoic acid

Definitions

  1. any salt or ester of heptanoic acid

Ancestry of “heptanoate”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishheptanoic acidthe aliphatic carboxylic acid having seven carbon atoms, CH3(CH2)5COOH; enanthic acid
2English-oicused to form the names of carboxylic groups and...
3EnglishbenzoicPertaining to, or obtained from, benzoin; Derived...
4English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
5EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
6Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
7Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
8Spanishimagenimage
9Italianimmagineimage; imago
10Latinimāginem
11Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
12Latinīn-un-, non-, not
13Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
14Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
15Proto-Italicenin
16Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁énEvery word from Latin īn-Every word from Proto-Italic en
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