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Where does “premitotic” come from?

premitotic (English) comes from English mitotic, from French mitotique, from French -ique, from Middle French -ique, from Old French -ique, from Latin -icus, from Proto-Italic *-ikos.

premitotic (English): Before the occurrence of mitosis

Definitions

  1. Before the occurrence of mitosis

Ancestry of “premitotic”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishmitoticOf or pertaining to mitosis
2Frenchmitotiquemitotic
3French-iqueUsed to form adjectives from nouns: -ic, -ical,...
4Middle French-ique—
5Old French-ique-ic
6Latin-icusbelonging to; derived from; of or pertaining to;...
7Proto-Italic*-ikos—
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