Where does “liposome” come from?

Liposome comes from English -some (suffix denoting a body or particle) combined with English lipo- (from Greek lipos, fat), ultimately tracing to Proto-Indo-European sem- meaning together or one.

liposome (English): An aqueous compartment enclosed by a bimolecular...

Definitions

  1. An aqueous compartment enclosed by a bimolecular...

Ancestry of “liposome”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-someCharacterized by some specific condition or...
2Middle English-somsome; having a specific quality
3Old Englishsumsome
4Proto-West Germanic*sumsome
5Proto-Germanicsumazsome (one), a certain (one)
6Proto-Indo-Europeansem-together, one

Words derived from “liposome”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European sem- →Every word from Proto-Germanic sumaz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic *sum →