Where does “palmitoleic acid” come from?

palmitoleic acid (English) comes from English palmitoleic, from English palmitic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine — in.

palmitoleic acid (English): An unsaturated fatty acid, having 16 carbon atoms...

Definitions

  1. An unsaturated fatty acid, having 16 carbon atoms...

Ancestry of “palmitoleic acid”, step by step

palmitoleic acid traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English palmitoleic

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpalmitoleicOf or pertaining to palmitoleic acid or its...
2EnglishpalmiticOf, pertaining to, or derived from palmitic acid
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-un-, non-, not
12Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
13Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
14Proto-Italicenin
15Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

via English acid

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishacidSour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having...
2Frenchacideacid, acidic, sour, tart; acid, acidic; acid
3Latinacidussour, tart, acid, bitter; harsh, grating, rough,...
4Latinaceōto be sour
5Proto-Italicakēōbe sharp-tasting, be sour
6Proto-Indo-Europeanh₂eḱ-éh₁-ye-ti
7Proto-Indo-Europeanh₂eḱ-sharp

Words derived from “palmitoleic acid

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