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Where does “sonication” come from?

Sonication derives from English sonic plus the suffix -ation, ultimately from Latin sonus meaning sound.

sonication (English): The process of disrupting or homogenizing...

Definitions

  1. The process of disrupting or homogenizing...

Ancestry of “sonication”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishSonic—
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 “sonication”

  • ultrasonication
  • presonication
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →