Where does “salol” come from?

salol (English) comes from English ol, from Japanese OL, from Japanese オフィスレディー, from Japanese オフィス, from English Office, from Middle English office, from Old French office, from Latin officium — obol, obolus, used at Athens as both a weight and...

salol (English): Phenyl salicylate; a, odorless, tasteless, white...

Definitions

  1. Phenyl salicylate; a, odorless, tasteless, white...

Ancestry of “salol”, step by step

salol traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English ol

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglisholNonstandard form of old
2JapaneseOL
3Japaneseオフィスレディーan "office lady"
4Japaneseオフィスoffice (building or room)
5EnglishOfficeA ceremonial duty or service, particularly
6Middle EnglishofficeThe state of being employed or having a work or...
7Old Frenchofficeoffice; service
8Latinofficiumduty, service; office; obligation, an obligatory...
9Latinopificiumwork
10LatinopifexSomeone who does work (especially creative or constructive); worker, maker, framer, fabricator, workman, mechanic, artificer, craftsman, inventor, artist, artisan
11LatinOpsearth goddess, fertility deity
12Latinoscenany bird by whose song cries augurs divined...
13Latinopscen
14Latinob-towards; against
15Latinobolusobolus (Greek coin)
16Ancient Greekὀβολόςobol, obolus, used at Athens as both a weight and...

via English salicylic

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsalicylicDerived from salicin
2EnglishsalicylThe hydroxybenzoyl radical derived from salicylic...
3Latinsalixwillow; a willow branch
4Proto-Indo-European*sl̥H-ik-
Every word from Ancient Greek ὀβολός