Where does “transcobalamin” come from?
transcobalamin (English) comes from English cobalamin, from English vitamin, from English vitamine, from English amine, from English -ine, from French -ine, from French -é, from Middle French -é.
transcobalamin (English): Any of a class of carrier proteins which bind...
Definitions
- Any of a class of carrier proteins which bind...
Ancestry of “transcobalamin”, step by step
transcobalamin traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English cobalamin
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | cobalamin | Any of several forms of vitamin B depending on... |
| 2 | English | vitamin | Any of a specific group of organic compounds... |
| 3 | English | vitamine | Obsolete form of vitamin |
| 4 | English | amine | A functional group formally derived from ammonia... |
| 5 | English | -ine | Of or pertaining to; Used to form demonyms;... |
| 6 | French | -ine | feminine singular of -in; female equivalent of... |
| 7 | French | -é | past participle root verb suffix of regular -er... |
| 8 | Middle French | -é | past participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n |
| 9 | Old French | -é | used to form past participles of regular -er... |
| 10 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -ā | Forms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |
via English trans
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | trans | In a double bond in which the greater radical on... |
| 2 | English | transgender | Having a gender which is different from the sex... |
| 3 | English | gender | kind |
| 4 | Middle English | gender | — |
| 5 | Middle French | gendre | — |
| 6 | Latin | genus | birth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | genos | lineage, origin |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁os | race, lineage |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |