The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκρέας“meat”
- English todaycreatinine
From creatine + -ine, from Ancient Greek κρέας (kréas, “meat”) (genitive κρέατος (kréatos)) + -ine.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκρέας all →
creatinecreosotecreaticcreo-kreo-kreophagykreotoxin
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.