Where does “oxopropanoic” come from?

oxopropanoic (English) comes from English propanoic, from English -oic, from English benzoic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen — in.

oxopropanoic (English): Of or relating to a compound containing a ketone group attached to a three-carbon chain with a carboxylic acid functional group

Definitions

  1. Of or relating to a compound containing a ketone group attached to a three-carbon chain with a carboxylic acid functional group

Ancestry of “oxopropanoic”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpropanoicOf or pertaining to propanoic acid or its...
2English-oicused to form the names of carboxylic groups and...
3EnglishbenzoicPertaining to, or obtained from, benzoin; Derived...
4English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
5EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
6Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
7Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
8Spanishimagenimage
9Italianimmagineimage; imago
10Latinimāginem
11Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
12Latinīn-un-, non-, not
13Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
14Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
15Proto-Italicenin
16Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁énEvery word from Latin īn-Every word from Proto-Italic en