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Where does “glycoprotéine” come from?

glycoprotéine (French) comes from French protéine, from French -ine, from French -é, from Middle French -é, from Old French -é, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

glycoprotéine (French): glycoprotein

Definitions

  1. glycoprotein

Ancestry of “glycoprotéine”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchprotéineprotein
2French-inefeminine singular of -in; female equivalent of...
3French-épast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
4Middle French-é—
5Old French-éused to form past participles of regular -er...
6Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
7Proto-Italic-ā—
8Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—

Words derived from “glycoprotéine”

  • glicoproteína
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →