Where does “xylohydroquinone” come from?

xylohydroquinone (English) comes from English hydroquinone, from English quinone, from English quinic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen — in.

xylohydroquinone (English): Any dimethyl derivative of hydroquinone

Definitions

  1. Any dimethyl derivative of hydroquinone

Ancestry of “xylohydroquinone”, step by step

xylohydroquinone traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English hydroquinone

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishhydroquinoneThe diphenol para-dihydroxy benzene, used as a...
2EnglishquinoneAny of a class of aromatic compounds having two...
3EnglishquinicOf, pertaining to, or derived from quinine
4English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
5EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
6Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
7Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
8Spanishimagenimage
9Italianimmagineimage; imago
10Latinimāginem
11Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
12Latinīn-un-, non-, not
13Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
14Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
15Proto-Italicenin
16Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

via English xylo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishxyloxylophone
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁énEvery word from Latin īn-Every word from Proto-Italic en