Where does “phosphorylation” come from?
Phosphorylation is an English formation from phosphoryl, ultimately derived through Latin -atio and -tio from Proto-Indo-European -ti- and -tis, nominal suffixes forming agent and action nouns.
phosphorylation (English): the process of transferring a phosphate group...
Definitions
- the process of transferring a phosphate group...
Ancestry of “phosphorylation”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | -ation | An action or process; The result of an action or... |
| 2 | Middle English | -acioun | Forms nouns denoting an action, act, or doing,... |
| 3 | Old French | -ation | ation |
| 4 | Latin | -ātiō | — |
| 5 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 6 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 7 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 8 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 9 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 10 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 11 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
Words derived from “phosphorylation”
- dephosphorylation
- autophosphorylation
- photophosphorylation
- hyperphosphorylation
- transphosphorylation
- hypophosphorylation
- transautophosphorylation
- monophosphorylation
- triphosphorylation
- autodephosphorylation
- cyanophosphorylation
- prephosphorylation
- glycerophosphorylation
- pseudophosphorylation
- phosphorylational
- biphosphorylation
- diphosphorylation
- ectophosphorylation
- nonphosphorylation
- overphosphorylation
- postphosphorylation
- thiophosphorylation
- autophosphorylational
- defosforilasyon