Etymology

ambisense

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Today it means: Describing single-stranded, viral RNA, part of which has a positive sense and part negative. Full definition →

English sense ← Middle English sense ← Old French sens
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The story

  1. Englishambi-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*sent-
  3. Proto-Italic*sentiō
  4. Latinsentiō
  5. Latinsēnsu
  6. Proto-Germanic*sinnaz
  7. Frankish*sinn
  8. Vulgar Latin*sennus
  9. Old Frenchsens
  10. Middle Englishsense
  11. Englishsense
  12. English todayambisense

From ambi- + sense.

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