Etymology

encapsidation

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Today it means: The enclosure of viral nucleic acid within a capsid Full definition →

English capsid ← French capside ← Latin capsa
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Italic*en
  3. Proto-Italic*en-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Old Frenchen-
  6. Middle Englishen-
  7. Englishen-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*kap-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*kapyéti
  10. Proto-Italic*kapjō
  11. Proto-Italic*kapsos
  12. Latincapsa
  13. Frenchcapside
  14. Englishcapsid
  15. English todayencapsidation

From en- + capsid + -ation.

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