Etymology

autoclave

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Today it means: A strong, pressurized, heated vessel, as for laboratory experiments, sterilization, cooking or mineral processing. Full definition →

French autoclave ← Latin clavis
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromclavis“key”
  2. French · borrowed fromautoclave
  3. English todayautoclave

Borrowed from French autoclave, formed with prefix auto- + Latin clavis (“key”).

Words from the same roots

Latinclavis all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.