Etymology

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Spanish quinina
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The story

  1. Spanish · derived fromquinina“quinine”
  2. English todaychinone

From a Latinised form of Spanish quinina (“quinine”), + -one.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.