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Where does “orthoquinone” come from?

orthoquinone (English) comes from English quinone, from English quinic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine — in.

orthoquinone (English): 1,2-benzoquinone

Definitions

  1. 1,2-benzoquinone

Ancestry of “orthoquinone”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishquinoneAny of a class of aromatic compounds having two...
2EnglishquinicOf, pertaining to, or derived from quinine
3English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
4EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
5Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
6Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
7Spanishimagenimage
8Italianimmagineimage; imago
9Latinimāginem—
10Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
11Latinīn-—
12Latinîn—
13Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
14Proto-Italicenin
15Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →