Where does “ubiquitin” come from?
Ubiquitin derives from English ubiquitous, from Latin ubique meaning "everywhere," ultimately from Proto-Italic -kʷe and Latin cubus, from Ancient Greek κύβος meaning "cube."
ubiquitin (English): Any of a class of small protein, or polypeptide,...
Definitions
- Any of a class of small protein, or polypeptide,...
Ancestry of “ubiquitin”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | ubiquitous | Being everywhere at once: omnipresent; Appearing... |
| 2 | English | ubiquity | The state or quality of being, or appearing to... |
| 3 | Medieval Latin | ubīquitās | — |
| 4 | Latin | ubique | everywhere |
| 5 | Latin | -que | and, a copulative particle affixed to the word it... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -kʷe | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -kʷe | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |
Words derived from “ubiquitin”