Etymology

ar-

Today it means: Forming classification names for classes of organic compounds that contain a carbon skeleton and one or more aromatic rings. Full definition →

Latin ad-
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ar- · prefix1

Extracted from the word aromatic.

ar- · prefix2

Shortened from area (because the function describes the area under a hyperbola), by analogy with arc-, the corresponding prefix for the circular trigonometric functions.

ar- · prefix3

  1. Latin · derived fromad-
  2. English todayar-

Assimilated form of ad- before r. From Latin ad-.

Words from the same roots

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