Where does “mucinous” come from?
Mucinous comes from Middle English -ous, from Old French -eux, from Latin -osus, from Old Latin -osos, from Proto-Italic -owonssos, from Latin -o-wont-to-s, a suffix forming adjectives denoting abundance or quality.
mucinous (English): Of, pertaining to, containing, or producing (one or more) mucins
Definitions
- Of, pertaining to, containing, or producing (one or more) mucins
Ancestry of “mucinous”, step by step
mucinous traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English ous
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ous | plural of ou |
| 2 | English | ou | A probably extinct species of Hawaiian... |
| 3 | Afrikaans | ou | An old fellow, guy, bloke; attributive form of... |
| 4 | Dutch | oud | old |
| 5 | Middle Dutch | out | old |
| 6 | Old Dutch | ald | — |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | ald | old |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | aldaz | old, grown up |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂eltós | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂él- | to grow, nourish |