Etymology

cyclopentaarsine

Today it means: The cyclopolyarsine containing a ring of five arsenic atoms; any organic derivative of this compound Full definition →

English arsine ← Middle English arsenik ← Middle French arsenic
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-redup.
  2. Proto-Indo-European*kʷékʷlos
  3. Proto-Hellenic*kʷókʷlos
  4. Proto-Hellenic*kúklos
  5. Ancient Greekκύκλος (kúklos)
  6. Late Latincyclus
  7. Middle Englishcicle
  8. Englishcycle
  9. Ancient Greekκύκλος (kúklos)
  10. Ancient Greekκυκλῐκός (kuklĭkós)
  11. Classical Latincyclicu
  12. Middle Frenchcyclique
  13. Frenchcyclique
  14. Classical Latincyclicus
  15. Englishcyclic
  16. Englishcyclo-
  17. Proto-Indo-European*pénkʷe
  18. Proto-Hellenic*pénkʷe
  19. Ancient Greekπέντε (pénte)
  20. Ancient Greekπεντᾰ- (pentă-)
  21. Englishpenta-
  22. Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰelh₃-
  23. Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰl̥h₃enyom
  24. Proto-Indo-Iranian*ȷ́ʰr̥Hanyam
  25. Proto-Iranian*jr̥Hanyam
  26. Old Median*zaranyam
  27. Old Median*kā
  28. Old Median*zaraniyakā
  29. Middle Persian*zarnīk
  30. Classical Syriacܙܪܢܝܟܐ (zarnīḵā)
  31. Arabicالزَرْنِيخ (az-zarnīḵ)
  32. Medieval Greekἀρσενικόν (arsenikón)
  33. Latinarsenicum
  34. Middle Frencharsenic
  35. Middle Englisharsenik
  36. Englisharsenic
  37. Englisharsine
  38. English todaycyclopentaarsine

From cyclo- + penta- + arsine.

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