The story
- Latin · derived fromacētum“vinegar”
- French · derived fromacétique
- English todayacetic
From French acétique, from Latin acētum (“vinegar”), from acēre (“to be sour”). By surface analysis, acet- + -ic.
Words from the same roots
Latinacētum all →
acetyleiselacetifyacetimeteraceto-acetousacetractacetum
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.