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Where does “immunogenicity” come from?

Immunogenicity derives from English immunogenic and the suffix -genic, from Latin -itas and Proto-Indo-European -it-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ǵenh₁- meaning to produce or beget.

immunogenicity (English): The ability of a particular substance to provoke...

Definitions

  1. The ability of a particular substance to provoke...

Ancestry of “immunogenicity”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishimmunogenicthat produces a reaction from the immune system;...
2Englishgenicof, relating to, produced by, or being a gene
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-—
12Latinîn—
13Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
14Proto-Italicenin
15Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →