Where does “immunoreactivity” come from?
Immunoreactivity is an English compound of immuno- and reactivity, where reactivity derives from English reactive, from English react, from Latin agere meaning "to do or drive," with the suffix Latin -ivus and noun-forming Latin -itas.
immunoreactivity (English): A measure of the immune reaction caused by an...
Definitions
- A measure of the immune reaction caused by an...
Ancestry of “immunoreactivity”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | reactivity | responsiveness to stimulation; relative... |
| 2 | English | -ity | Used to form a noun from an adjective;... |
| 3 | Middle English | -ite | — |
| 4 | Old French | -ité | -ity |
| 5 | Latin | -itās | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ts | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tós | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |