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Where does “hydroxyanthraquinone” come from?

hydroxyanthraquinone (English) comes from English anthraquinone, from English quinone, from English quinic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen — in.

hydroxyanthraquinone (English): Any of several organic compounds that can be...

Definitions

  1. Any of several organic compounds that can be...

Ancestry of “hydroxyanthraquinone”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishanthraquinoneA tricyclic quinone, derived from anthracene; Any...
2EnglishquinoneAny of a class of aromatic compounds having two...
3EnglishquinicOf, pertaining to, or derived from quinine
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-—
13Latinîn—
14Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
15Proto-Italicenin
16Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →