The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἄργυρος“silver”
- German · borrowed fromArginin
- English todayarginine
From German Arginin, from Ancient Greek ἄργυρος (árguros, “silver”) and ἀργινόεις (arginóeis, “silvery, brightly shining”) in reference to arginine nitrate crystals' silver-white appearance when first refined from lupin seedlings by Ernst Schulze and Ernst Steiger in 1886.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἄργυρος all →
argyraspid
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.