The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromσῶμα“body”
- French · derived fromazote“nitrogen”
- English todayazotosome
From azote (“nitrogen”) + -o- + -some (“body”), from French azote (“nitrogen”) and Ancient Greek σῶμα (sôma, “body”), a "nitrogen body", formed by analogy with liposome.
Words from the same roots
Frenchazote all →
azote
Ancient Greekσῶμα all →
somaliposomeautosomeidiosomaprosomasomato-somatomesomatoschisis-some
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.