Etymology

dehydrocholesterol

Today it means: A sterol, 7-dehydrocholesterol, found in the skin, that, on exposure to light, is converted into vitamin D Full definition →

English cholesterol ← Latin dē- ← Proto-Italic *dē
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*de
  2. Proto-Indo-European*déh₁
  3. Proto-Italic*dē
  4. Latindē
  5. Latindē-
  6. Englishde-
  7. Englishhydro-
  8. Englishdehydro-
  9. Englishcholesterol
  10. English todaydehydrocholesterol

From dehydro- + cholesterol.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.