Where does “aspartam” come from?

aspartam (Polish) comes from English aspartame, from English aspartic, from English asparagine, from French asparagine, from French -ine, from French -é, from Middle French -é, from Old French -é.

aspartam (Polish): aspartame

Definitions

  1. aspartame

Ancestry of “aspartam”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishaspartameAn artificial sweetener, the methyl ester of a...
2EnglishasparticOf or pertaining to aspartic acid or its...
3EnglishasparagineA nonessential amino acid CHNO found in plants...
4Frenchasparagineasparagine
5French-inefeminine singular of -in; female equivalent of...
6Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
7Middle Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n
8Old Frenchused to form past participles of regular -er...
9Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
10Proto-ItalicForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
11Proto-Indo-European-éh₂
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂Every word from French -ineEvery word from Latin -a