Where does “ketoglutarate” come from?

ketoglutarate (English) comes from English glutarate, from English glutaric, from English glutamic, from English -amic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem — in.

ketoglutarate (English): Any salt or ester of a ketoglutaric acid

Definitions

  1. Any salt or ester of a ketoglutaric acid

Ancestry of “ketoglutarate”, step by step

ketoglutarate traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English glutarate

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishglutarateAny salt or ester of glutaric acid
2EnglishglutaricOf or pertaining to glutaric acid or its...
3EnglishglutamicOf, pertaining to, or derived from glutamic acid
4English-amicamic; Of, relating to, or derived from an amine,...
5English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
6EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
7Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
8Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
9Spanishimagenimage
10Italianimmagineimage; imago
11Latinimāginem
12Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
13Latinīn-un-, non-, not
14Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
15Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
16Proto-Italicenin
17Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

via English keto

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishketoThe carbonyl group of a ketone; ketogenic;...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁énEvery word from Latin īn-Every word from Proto-Italic en
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