Where does “octachlorobiphenyl” come from?
octachlorobiphenyl (English) comes from English chloro, from English genic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine — in.
octachlorobiphenyl (English): Either of twelve isomers of the polychlorinated...
Definitions
- Either of twelve isomers of the polychlorinated...
Ancestry of “octachlorobiphenyl”, step by step
octachlorobiphenyl traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English chloro
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | chloro | — |
| 2 | English | genic | of, relating to, produced by, or being a gene |
| 3 | English | -ic | Used to form adjectives from nouns with the... |
| 4 | English | image | An optical or other representation of a real... |
| 5 | French | image | picture, image; frame; first-person singular... |
| 6 | Portuguese | imagem | image; picture; figure; image; image; face |
| 7 | Spanish | imagen | image |
| 8 | Italian | immagine | image; imago |
| 9 | Latin | imāginem | — |
| 10 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 11 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 12 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 13 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via English biphenyl
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | biphenyl | A colourless solid hydrocarbon, CH, consisting of... |
| 2 | English | phenyl | A univalent hydrocarbon radical formally derived... |
| 3 | French | phényle | phenyl |
| 4 | French | -yle | — |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | Ὕλη | wood; trees; forest |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | swel- | to smolder; burn; scorch; beam, board, frame,... |