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- Latin · derived fromferrātus“iron-bearing”
- English todayferritin
From Latin ferrātus (“iron-bearing”) and -in; compare also ferri- and ferro-.
Words from the same roots
Latinferrātus all →
ferrado
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
ferritin
Today it means: Any of a family of iron-carrying globular protein complexes consisting of 24 protein subunits; the key protein of intracellular iron storage. Full definition →
Latin ferrātus