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Where does “microribonucleoprotein” come from?

microribonucleoprotein (English) comes from English ribonucleoprotein, from English nucleoprotein, from English protein, from French protéine, from French -ine, from French -é, from Middle French -é, from Old French -é.

microribonucleoprotein (English): Any very small ribonucleoprotein

Definitions

  1. Any very small ribonucleoprotein

Ancestry of “microribonucleoprotein”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishribonucleoproteinAny nucleoprotein that contains RNA
2EnglishnucleoproteinAny complex of a nucleic acid and a protein
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—
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