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Where does “metalloendoprotease” come from?

metalloendoprotease (English) comes from English endoprotease, from English protease, from English protein, from French protéine, from French -ine, from French -é, from Middle French -é, from Old French -é.

metalloendoprotease (English): any endoprotease that is a metalloenzyme

Definitions

  1. any endoprotease that is a metalloenzyme

Ancestry of “metalloendoprotease”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishendoproteaseendopeptidase
2EnglishproteaseAn enzyme that cuts or cleaves proteins
3EnglishproteinAny of numerous large, complex naturally-produced...
4Frenchprotéineprotein
5French-inefeminine singular of -in; female equivalent of...
6French-épast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
7Middle French-é—
8Old French-éused to form past participles of regular -er...
9Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
10Proto-Italic-ā—
11Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →