Where does “Chemieinformatik” come from?
Chemieinformatik (German) comes from German Informatik, from English informatics, from English -ics, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen — in.
Ancestry of “Chemieinformatik”, step by step
Chemieinformatik traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Informatik
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Informatik | computer science; information technology;... |
| 2 | English | informatics | A branch of information science and of computer... |
| 3 | English | -ics | Forms nouns referring to fields of knowledge or... |
| 4 | English | -ic | Used to form adjectives from nouns with the... |
| 5 | English | image | An optical or other representation of a real... |
| 6 | French | image | picture, image; frame; first-person singular... |
| 7 | Portuguese | imagem | image; picture; figure; image; image; face |
| 8 | Spanish | imagen | image |
| 9 | Italian | immagine | image; imago |
| 10 | Latin | imāginem | — |
| 11 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 12 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 13 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 14 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 15 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via German Chemie
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Chemie | chemistry |
| 2 | German | Alchemie | alchemy |
| 3 | Latin | alchēmia | alchemy |
| 4 | Arabic | كيمياء | chemistry |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | χυμείᾱ | art of alloying metals, alchemy |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | χύμα | that which is poured out or flows, fluid; ingot,... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -μᾰ | "suffix forming a noun denoting the result of an... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -mn̥ | Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs |