Etymology

aspartic

A1S1P3A1R1T1I1C3

Today it means: Of or pertaining to aspartic acid or its derivatives Full definition →

Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

Formed irregularly from asparagine, possibly an arbitrary formation; see -ic.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.