Where does “microexon” come from?

microexon (English) comes from English exon, from English intron, from English intragenic, from English genic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem — in.

microexon (English): A very short exon

Definitions

  1. A very short exon

Ancestry of “microexon”, step by step

microexon traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English exon

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishexonAn officer of the Queen's Body Guard of the...
2EnglishintronA portion of a split gene that is included in...
3EnglishintragenicWithin a gene
4Englishgenicof, relating to, produced by, or being a gene
5English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
6EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
7Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
8Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
9Spanishimagenimage
10Italianimmagineimage; imago
11Latinimāginem
12Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
13Latinīn-un-, non-, not
14Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
15Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
16Proto-Italicenin
17Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

via English micro

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishmicroSmall, relatively small; short form of...
2Ancient Greekμικρόςlittle, small
3Proto-Indo-Europeanmēy-soft, tender, dear
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én