Where does “phosphoprotease” come from?

phosphoprotease (English) comes from English protease, from English protein, from French protéine, from French -ine, from French -é, from Middle French -é, from Old French -é, from Latin -a.

phosphoprotease (English): Any protease that cleaves phosphoproteins

Definitions

  1. Any protease that cleaves phosphoproteins

Ancestry of “phosphoprotease”, step by step

phosphoprotease traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English protease

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishproteaseAn enzyme that cuts or cleaves proteins
2EnglishproteinAny of numerous large, complex naturally-produced...
3Frenchprotéineprotein
4French-inefeminine singular of -in; female equivalent of...
5Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
6Middle Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n
7Old Frenchused to form past participles of regular -er...
8Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
9Proto-ItalicForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
10Proto-Indo-European-éh₂

via English phospho

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishphospho
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂