Where does “paraprobiotic” come from?
paraprobiotic (English) comes from English Pará, from Portuguese Pará, from Portuguese Pera, from Portuguese espera, from Portuguese esperar, from Old Portuguese asperar, from Old Spanish esperar, from Latin spērō — to succeed, to prosper.
paraprobiotic (English): An inactivated probiotic
Definitions
- An inactivated probiotic
Ancestry of “paraprobiotic”, step by step
paraprobiotic traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Pará
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Pará | A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions |
| 2 | Portuguese | Pará | a state in the North Region of Brazil |
| 3 | Portuguese | Pera | pear |
| 4 | Portuguese | espera | wait |
| 5 | Portuguese | esperar | to wait; to hope; to expect; to anticipate |
| 6 | Old Portuguese | asperar | — |
| 7 | Old Spanish | esperar | to wait for, await |
| 8 | Latin | spērō | to hope, expect |
| 9 | Latin | spes | hope; expectation, anticipation, apprehension |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | spēs | hope |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | spéh₁s | prosperity, success |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | speh₁- | to succeed, to prosper |
via English probiotic
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | probiotic | A food or dietary supplement, such as a yogurt,... |
| 2 | English | biotic | Of, pertaining to, or produced by life or living... |
| 3 | French | biotique | biotic |
| 4 | Late Latin | bioticus | — |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | βιωτικός | concerning or relating to life; of life |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | βίος | life |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | Γένεσις | Genesis. The title of the first book of the Bible and Pentateuch as in the Septuagint translation in Greek |
| 8 | Proto-Hellenic | génetis | origin, source |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁tis | birth, production |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |