Where does “quinine” come from?

Quinine comes from Quechua kina, which derives from Latin quini (a group of five), from Latin quinque (five), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European pénkʷe (five).

quinine (English): A bitter colourless powder, an alkaloid derived...

Definitions

  1. A bitter colourless powder, an alkaloid derived...

Ancestry of “quinine”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchquininequinine
2Spanishquinaquinine; toxic wine; double five
3Latinquinanominative neuter plural of quīnī; accusative...
4Latinquinifive each; five at a time
5Latinquinquefive; 5
6Proto-Italickʷenkʷefive
7Proto-Indo-Europeanpénkʷefive

Words derived from “quinine”

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