Where does “oxobutanoate” come from?

oxobutanoate (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.

oxobutanoate (English): Any derivative of a butanoate in which a...

Definitions

  1. Any derivative of a butanoate in which a...

Ancestry of “oxobutanoate”, step by step

oxobutanoate 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 oxo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishoxoA substituent oxygen atom connected to another...
2LatinŌxus
3Ancient GreekὮξος
4Proto-Iranianwaxš-
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁énEvery word from Latin īn-Every word from Proto-Italic en