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Where does “lipoteichoic acid” come from?

lipoteichoic acid (English) comes from English teichoic acid, from English teichoic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine — in.

lipoteichoic acid (English): Any of various lipid derivatives of teichoic...

Definitions

  1. Any of various lipid derivatives of teichoic...

Ancestry of “lipoteichoic acid”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishteichoic acidAny of several polymers of glycerol or ribitol,...
2EnglishteichoicOf or pertaining to the teichoic acids or their...
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 →