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Where does “trietile” come from?

trietile (Italian) comes from Italian etile, from Catalan -è, from Latin -ēnus, from Proto-Indo-European -nós — Creates verbal adjectives from roots.

trietile (Italian): triethyl

Definitions

  1. triethyl

Ancestry of “trietile”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianetileethyl
2Catalan-èUsed to form an ordinal number from a cardinal...
3Latin-ēnus—
4Proto-Indo-European-nósCreates verbal adjectives from roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -nós →