Where does “multivacuolated” come from?
multivacuolated (English) comes from English multi, from English multituberculate, from English tuberculate, from Latin tuberculatus, from Latin tūberculum, from Latin tūber, from Proto-Italic tūβos, from Proto-Indo-European tewh₂- — to swell; to crowd; to be strong.
multivacuolated (English): Having multiple vacuoles
Definitions
- Having multiple vacuoles
Ancestry of “multivacuolated”, step by step
multivacuolated traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
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 |
via English vacuolated
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | vacuolated | Having vacuoles |
| 2 | English | vacuole | A large membrane-bound vesicle in a cell's... |
| 3 | French | vacuole | vacuole |
| 4 | Latin | vacula | — |
| 5 | Latin | vacuus | empty, vacant, unoccupied; devoid or free of,... |
| 6 | Latin | -uus | forms adjectives on verbal stems |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *-wos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -wós | Creates adjectives from verb stems |