Where does “rifamide” come from?

rifamide (English) comes from English rifa-, from English rifamycin, from English amino-, from English amine, from English -ine, from French -ine, from French -é, from Middle French -é.

rifamide (English): Any amide of rifamycin

Definitions

  1. Any amide of rifamycin

Ancestry of “rifamide”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishrifa-Used to form names of rifamycin derivatives used as antibiotics
2EnglishrifamycinAny of a group of antibiotics, a subclass of the ansamycins, which are synthesized either naturally by the bacterium Amycolatopsis mediterranei or artificially
3Englishamino-Of amines and of the amino functional group
4EnglishamineA functional group formally derived from ammonia...
5English-ineOf or pertaining to; Used to form demonyms;...
6French-inefeminine singular of -in; female equivalent of...
7Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
8Middle Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n
9Old Frenchused to form past participles of regular -er...
10Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
11Proto-ItalicForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
12Proto-Indo-European-éh₂
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂