The story
- Latin · derived frombīlis“bile”
- English todaybilin
From international scientific vocabulary, and clearly reflecting New Latin, from Latin bīlis (“bile”). By surface analysis, bili- + -in, although according to American Heritage Dictionary, bilin was back-formed from phycobilin (as opposed to phycobilin being derived from bilin as surface analysis suggests).
Words from the same roots
Latinbīlis all →
bilebili-bilifuscinbiliprasinstercobilin
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.