Etymology

fascin

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Today it means: An actin-bundling protein. Full definition →

Latin fascis
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromfascis“bundle”
  2. English todayfascin

From Latin fascis (“bundle”) + -in.

Words from the same roots

Latinfascis all →

fagot

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