Where does “phosphoacceptor” come from?

phosphoacceptor (English) comes from English acceptor, from English accept, from Middle English accepten, from Old French accepter, from Latin acceptō, from Latin accipiō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn- — in.

phosphoacceptor (English): A site on a biological macromolecule at which...

Definitions

  1. A site on a biological macromolecule at which...

Ancestry of “phosphoacceptor”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishacceptorOne who accepts; One who accepts a draft or a...
2EnglishacceptTo receive, especially with a consent, with...
3Middle Englishacceptento accept
4Old Frenchaccepterto accept
5Latinacceptōto take, receive, accept (regularly)
6Latinaccipiōto receive, accept, take
7Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
8Latinīn-un-, non-, not
9Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
10Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
11Proto-Italicenin
12Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én