Where does “ステアリン酸” come from?

ステアリン酸 (Japanese) comes from Japanese ステアリン, from English stearin, from French stéarine, from French -ine, from French -é, from Middle French -é, from Old French -é, from Latin -a.

ステアリン酸 (Japanese): stearic acid

Definitions

  1. stearic acid

Ancestry of “ステアリン酸”, step by step

ステアリン酸 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese ステアリン

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japaneseステアリンstearin
2EnglishstearinSolid fat; The triglyceride of stearic acid
3Frenchstéarinestearine
4French-inefeminine singular of -in; female equivalent of...
5Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
6Middle Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n
7Old Frenchused to form past participles of regular -er...
8Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
9Proto-ItalicForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
10Proto-Indo-European-éh₂

via Japanese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanesesourness; acid; Alternative spelling of 酢
2Middle Chinese
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂Every word from French -ineEvery word from Latin -a
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