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Where does “quinone” come from?

Quinone comes from Quechua kina, a South American plant whose name was adopted into English chemical terminology.

quinone (English): Any of a class of aromatic compounds having two...

Definitions

  1. Any of a class of aromatic compounds having two...

Ancestry of “quinone”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishquinicOf, pertaining to, or derived from quinine
2English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
3EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
4Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
5Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
6Spanishimagenimage
7Italianimmagineimage; imago
8Latinimāginem—
9Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
10Latinīn-—
11Latinîn—
12Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
13Proto-Italicenin
14Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “quinone”

  • hydroquinone
  • anthraquinone
  • plastoquinone
  • semiquinone
  • benzoquinone
  • quinoid
  • TBHQ
  • quinonoid
  • quinizarin
  • hydroxyanthraquinone
  • rhodoquinone
  • dihydroxyanthraquinone
  • indanthrene
  • benzohydroquinone
  • phenanthrenequinone
  • parabenzoquinone
  • aminoanthraquinone
  • benzosemiquinone
  • orthoquinone
  • hydroxybenzoquinone
  • paraquinone
  • anthraquinonoid
  • xyloquinone
  • indolequinone
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →