Where does “intranasal” come from?

Intranasal comes from English nasal combined with the Latin prefix intra, meaning within, plus Latin -alis forming adjectives.

intranasal (English): Within the nose; Taken through the nose

Definitions

  1. Within the nose; Taken through the nose

Ancestry of “intranasal”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishnasalOf or pertaining to the nose or to the nasion;...
2Medieval Latinnasalisnasal
3LatinnāsusThe nose
4Latin-ōsuffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs
5Proto-Indo-European-ōDerives nouns from roots

Words derived from “intranasal”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ō →Every word from Latin -ō →Every word from Latin nāsus →