Where does “tetrachloride” come from?
Tetrachloride combines English tetrachloride's prefix tetra- from Ancient Greek τέτταρες (tettares, "four") and English chloride from Ancient Greek χλωρός (chlorós, "greenish-yellow").
tetrachloride (English): any chloride containing four chlorine atoms in...
Definitions
- any chloride containing four chlorine atoms in...
Ancestry of “tetrachloride”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | chloride | any salt of hydrochloric acid, such as sodium... |
| 2 | English | chlorine | A toxic, green, gaseous chemical element with an... |
| 3 | English | -ine | Of or pertaining to; Used to form demonyms;... |
| 4 | French | -ine | feminine singular of -in; female equivalent of... |
| 5 | French | -é | past participle root verb suffix of regular -er... |
| 6 | Middle French | -é | past participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n |
| 7 | Old French | -é | used to form past participles of regular -er... |
| 8 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -ā | Forms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |