Where does “vacuole” come from?

Vacuole comes from French vacuole, from Latin vacuola, diminutive of vacuus meaning empty, from vaco meaning to be empty, from Proto-Indo-European h₁weh₂- meaning to blow or flow.

vacuole (English): A large membrane-bound vesicle in a cell's...

Definitions

  1. A large membrane-bound vesicle in a cell's...

Ancestry of “vacuole”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchvacuolevacuole
2Latinvacula—
3Latinvacuusempty, vacant, unoccupied; devoid or free of,...
4Latin-uusforms adjectives on verbal stems
5Proto-Italic*-wos—
6Proto-Indo-European-wósCreates adjectives from verb stems

Words derived from “vacuole”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -wós →Every word from Latin -uus →Every word from Latin vacuus →