Where does “mycobacillin” come from?
mycobacillin (English) comes from English bacillin, from Translingual bacillus, from Latin Bacillus, from Latin -illus, from Latin -lus, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
mycobacillin (English): An antifungal cyclic peptide first isolated in 1958 from the bacterium Bacillus subtilis
Definitions
- An antifungal cyclic peptide first isolated in 1958 from the bacterium Bacillus subtilis
Ancestry of “mycobacillin”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | bacillin | An antibiotic, produced by "Bacillus subtilis",... |
| 2 | Translingual | bacillus | genus |
| 3 | Latin | Bacillus | — |
| 4 | Latin | -illus | Used to form adjectives from nouns |
| 5 | Latin | -lus | Alternative form of -ulus; diminutive suffix |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |