Where does “racemate” come from?
racemate (English) comes from English racemic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine, from Latin imāginem — in.
racemate (English): a racemic mixture; any salt or ester of racemic...
Definitions
- a racemic mixture; any salt or ester of racemic...
Ancestry of “racemate”, step by step
racemate traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via English racemic
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | racemic | containing equal amounts of dextrorotatory and... |
| 2 | English | -ic | Used to form adjectives from nouns with the... |
| 3 | English | image | An optical or other representation of a real... |
| 4 | French | image | picture, image; frame; first-person singular... |
| 5 | Portuguese | imagem | image; picture; figure; image; image; face |
| 6 | Spanish | imagen | image |
| 7 | Italian | immagine | image; imago |
| 8 | Latin | imāginem | — |
| 9 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 10 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 11 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 12 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via English race
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | race | A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc.... |
| 2 | Middle French | race | race; breed |
| 3 | Italian | razza | race, breed; kind, type; family, descent |
| 4 | Italian | razzo | skyrocket; Ellipsis of razzo di segnalazione;... |
| 5 | Italian | raggio | ray, beam, shaft; spoke; radius |
| 6 | Latin | radius | ray; staff, rod; spoke |
| 7 | English | -án | Of or pertaining to;. Often added to words of Latin origin, but also used with words of other origins. When a word ends in a |
| 8 | Middle English | -an | — |
via English racemic acid
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | racemic acid | an equal mixture of the d- and l- forms of tartaric acid found in grape juice; the isomers can be separated via crystallization |