The story
- Latin · derived fromcatena“a chain”
- English todaycatenane
From Latin catena (“a chain”).
Words from the same roots
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
catenane
Today it means: Any compound, especially a hydrocarbon, having two or more rings interconnected like the links of a chain, without a covalent bond. Full definition →
Latin catena