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Where does “triglyceride” come from?

Triglyceride comes from English glyceride, English glycerine, English -ine, English three, Latin -inus, and Proto-Indo-European -iHnos, a suffix forming adjectives.

triglyceride (English): A lipid, an ester of glycerol and three fatty...

Definitions

  1. A lipid, an ester of glycerol and three fatty...

Ancestry of “triglyceride”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishglycerideAn ester of glycerol and one or more fatty acid;...
2EnglishglycerineThe common name for glycerol, glycerin or E422
3Frenchglycérineglycerine
4French-inefeminine singular of -in; female equivalent of...
5French-épast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
6Middle French-é—
7Old French-éused to form past participles of regular -er...
8Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
9Proto-Italic-ā—
10Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—

Words derived from “triglyceride”

  • hypertriglyceridemia
  • hypertriglyceridaemia
  • triglyceridemia
  • normotriglyceridemic
  • hypotriglyceridemic
  • hypotriglyceridemia
  • triglyceridemic
  • normotriglyceridemia
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