Where does “multipipette” come from?
multipipette (English) comes from English pipette, from French pipette, from French pipe, from English pipe, from Middle English pīpe, from Middle English pipen, from Old English pīpian, from Proto-West Germanic pīpan — I pip, peep.
multipipette (English): A group of pipettes in a holder that keeps them in a line and allows them to dispense fluid simultaneously
Definitions
- A group of pipettes in a holder that keeps them in a line and allows them to dispense fluid simultaneously
Ancestry of “multipipette”, step by step
multipipette traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English pipette
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | pipette | A small tube, often with an enlargement or bulb... |
| 2 | French | pipette | pipette |
| 3 | French | pipe | tobacco pipe; blowjob; the pipe symbol |
| 4 | English | pipe | Meanings relating to a wind instrument; Meanings... |
| 5 | Middle English | pīpe | A pipe; a piece of tubing used as a channel (often for fluids) |
| 6 | Middle English | pipen | To use a pipe or similar musical instrument; to... |
| 7 | Old English | pīpian | to pipe |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | pīpan | to peep, to chirp, to squeak |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | pīpaną | To chirp or pipe like a bird or rodent; To talk... |
| 10 | Latin | pipo | I pip, peep |
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 |