Where does “pentallelic” come from?

pentallelic (English) comes from English allelic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine, from Latin imāginem — in.

pentallelic (English): Composed of five alleles

Definitions

  1. Composed of five alleles

Ancestry of “pentallelic”, step by step

pentallelic traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English allelic

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishallelicOf or pertaining to alleles; Of or pertaining to...
2English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
3EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
4Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
5Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
6Spanishimagenimage
7Italianimmagineimage; imago
8Latinimāginem
9Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
10Latinīn-un-, non-, not
11Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
12Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
13Proto-Italicenin
14Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

via English penta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishpenta
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁énEvery word from Latin īn-Every word from Proto-Italic en