Etymology

alcahest

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Late Latin alcahest
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  1. Late Latin · borrowed fromalcahest
  2. English todayalcahest

Borrowed from Late Latin alcahest, apparently coined by Paracelsus as a pseudo-Arabism.

Words from the same roots

Late Latinalcahest all →

alkahest

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.