The story
- French · borrowed fromcolicine
- English today-cin
From English colicin, from French colicine, from coli- + -cine, with ending formed by analogy from antibiotics like auréomycine, streptomycine, with second element from myc- + -ine.
Words from the same roots
Frenchcolicine all →
colicin
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.