Where does “multicellulase” come from?
multicellulase (English) comes from English cellulase, from English cellulose, from French cellulose, from French cellule, from Latin cellula, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
multicellulase (English): Relating to multiple cellulases
Definitions
- Relating to multiple cellulases
Ancestry of “multicellulase”, step by step
multicellulase traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English cellulase
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | cellulase | An enzyme that catalyze the cellulolysis of... |
| 2 | English | cellulose | A complex carbohydrate that forms the main... |
| 3 | French | cellulose | cellulose |
| 4 | French | cellule | cell; table cell |
| 5 | Latin | cellula | small room, especially that of a slave; humble... |
| 6 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via English multi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | multi | A multituberculate; Neolamprologus multifasciatus |
| 2 | English | multituberculate | Having molars with multiple rows of cusps; Any of... |
| 3 | English | tuberculate | Having tubercles; Tubercular |
| 4 | Latin | tuberculatus | warty, tuberculate |
| 5 | Latin | tūberculum | a small swelling, bump, or protuberance; a boil, pimple, tubercle |
| 6 | Latin | tūber | a hump, bump, swelling, protuberance; excrescence |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | tūβos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | tewh₂- | to swell; to crowd; to be strong |