Where does “nabitan” come from?

nabitan (English) comes from English butanoate, from English butanoic, from English -oic, from English benzoic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem — in.

nabitan (English): A synthetic cannabinoid analogue of dronabinol, exhibiting antiemetic and analgesic effects

Definitions

  1. A synthetic cannabinoid analogue of dronabinol, exhibiting antiemetic and analgesic effects

Ancestry of “nabitan”, step by step

nabitan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English butanoate

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishbutanoateAny salt or ester of butanoic acid
2EnglishbutanoicOf or pertaining to butanoic acid or its...
3English-oicused to form the names of carboxylic groups and...
4EnglishbenzoicPertaining to, or obtained from, benzoin; Derived...
5English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
6EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
7Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
8Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
9Spanishimagenimage
10Italianimmagineimage; imago
11Latinimāginem
12Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
13Latinīn-un-, non-, not
14Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
15Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
16Proto-Italicenin
17Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

via English dronabinol

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishdronabinolA synthetic delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol that is used to control nausea caused by chemotherapy and to stimulate appetite in cases of AIDS-induced anorexia
2EnglishtetrahydrocannabinolThe psychoactive substance present in cannabis, a...
3EnglishcannabinolA psychoactive cannabinoid found in the hemp...
4English-olAn alcohol or phenol; Indicating an oily...
5EnglishalcoholAny of a class of organic compounds containing a...
6FrenchalcoholAlternative spelling of alcool
7Medieval Latinalcoholpowdered ore of antimony; kohl, collyrium,...
8Arabicكحلantimony; kohl, stibnite; black coloring of the...
9Arabicكُحْلantimony; kohl, stibnite
10Akkadianguḫlumkohl, antimony paste

Words derived from “nabitan

Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁énEvery word from Latin īn-Every word from Proto-Italic en