Where does “mucopolizaharidă” come from?

mucopolizaharidă (Romanian) comes from French mucopolysaccharide, from French polysaccharide, from French poly-, from Ancient Greek πολύς, from Ancient Greek πόρος, from Ancient Greek πείρω, from Proto-Hellenic *péryō.

mucopolizaharidă (Romanian): mucopolysaccharide

Definitions

  1. mucopolysaccharide

Ancestry of “mucopolizaharidă”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchmucopolysaccharidemucopolysaccharide
2FrenchpolysaccharideSynonym of polyoside
3Frenchpoly-poly- (many)
4Ancient Greekπολύςmany, a lot of; neuter πολύ or πολλά as...
5Ancient Greekπόροςa means of passage, passageway, way, opening;...
6Ancient GreekπείρωI pierce, run through; I cleave through
7Proto-Hellenic*péryō—
Every word from Proto-Hellenic *péryō →Every word from Ancient Greek πείρω →Every word from Ancient Greek πόρος →