Where does “immune” come from?
Immune comes from Middle French immun, from Latin immunis meaning exempt or free from obligation, composed of the Latin prefix in- and Latin in meaning within, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ne meaning not.
immune (English): Exempt; not subject to; Protected by inoculation,...
Definitions
- Exempt; not subject to; Protected by inoculation,...
Ancestry of “immune”, step by step
Words derived from “immune”
- autoimmune
- immunological
- immunology
- immunologically
- nonimmune
- psychoneuroimmunology
- immunologist
- alloimmune
- neuroimmune
- hyperimmune
- preimmune
- neuroimmunology
- psychoneuroimmunological
- nonimmunological
- neuroimmunological
- nonautoimmune
- immunomics
- radioimmune
- psychoimmunology
- autoimmunological
- dysimmune
- radioimmunological
- psychoneuroimmunologist
- radioimmunology