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Where does “mevalonate” come from?

mevalonate (English) comes from English mevalonic, from English valeric, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine — in.

mevalonate (English): Any salt or ester of mevalonic acid

Definitions

  1. Any salt or ester of mevalonic acid

Ancestry of “mevalonate”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishmevalonicOf or pertaining to mevalonic acid or its...
2EnglishvalericOf, pertaining to, or derived from valeric acid
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

Words derived from “mevalonate”

  • diphosphomevalonate
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →