Where does “pteroylaspartic” come from?

pteroylaspartic (English) comes from English aspartic, from English asparagine, from French asparagine, from French -ine, from French -é, from Middle French -é, from Old French -é, from Latin -a.

pteroylaspartic (English): Designating an antimetabolite acid used in...

Definitions

  1. Designating an antimetabolite acid used in...

Ancestry of “pteroylaspartic”, step by step

pteroylaspartic traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English aspartic

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishasparticOf or pertaining to aspartic acid or its...
2EnglishasparagineA nonessential amino acid CHNO found in plants...
3Frenchasparagineasparagine
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 pteroyl

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpteroylA univalent polycyclic heterocyclic acyl radical...
2EnglishpteridineA bicyclic aromatic heterocycle consisting of...
3English-idineDenotes a chemical compound containing a ring...
4EnglishpyridineAny of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds...
5GermanPyridinpyridine
6German-īncreates the female form for many nouns for living beings; umlaut usually occurs in monosyllables, but rarely in polysyllables
7Proto-Slavic-inъ-ine; Creates singulatives, mostly with...
8Proto-Slavic-aninъ
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂Every word from French -ineEvery word from Latin -a
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