Where does “sorbic acid” come from?

sorbic acid (English) comes from Latin sorbum, from Latin sorbus, from Indo-European *ser-.

sorbic acid (English): an unsaturated aliphatic carboxylic acid,...

Definitions

  1. an unsaturated aliphatic carboxylic acid,...

Ancestry of “sorbic acid”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinsorbumsorb, fruit of the service tree
2Latinsorbussorb; service tree; "Sorbus domestica"
3Indo-European*ser-—

Words derived from “sorbic acid”

Every word from Indo-European *ser- →Every word from Latin sorbus →Every word from Latin sorbum →