Where does “mercaptobenzoic” come from?
mercaptobenzoic (English) comes from English benzoic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine, from Latin imāginem — in.
mercaptobenzoic (English): Of or pertaining to a mercaptobenzoic acid or its...
Definitions
- Of or pertaining to a mercaptobenzoic acid or its...
Ancestry of “mercaptobenzoic”, step by step
mercaptobenzoic traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English benzoic
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | benzoic | Pertaining to, or obtained from, benzoin; Derived... |
| 2 | English | -ic | Used to form adjectives from nouns with the... |
| 3 | English | image | An optical or other representation of a real... |
| 4 | French | image | picture, image; frame; first-person singular... |
| 5 | Portuguese | imagem | image; picture; figure; image; image; face |
| 6 | Spanish | imagen | image |
| 7 | Italian | immagine | image; imago |
| 8 | Latin | imāginem | — |
| 9 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 10 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 11 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 12 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via English mercaptan
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | mercaptan | Any of a class of organic compounds of sulphur, (R-SH) where R represents an alkyl or other organic substituent. They tend to be foul-smelling. They are also termed thiols or thioalcohols |
| 2 | German | Mercaptan | mercaptan |
| 3 | Latin | captans | capturing |
| 4 | Latin | captō | to strive to seize, catch or grasp at |
| 5 | Latin | capiō | to take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | kapiō | take |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | kapjō | take, seize |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂pyéti | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | keh₂p- | to seize, grab; to seize; take up; lift; to take,... |