The story
- Latin · derived fromhelvus“honey-yellow”
- English todayhelvolic acid
Coined by Chain et al. in 1944, in reference to the mold Aspergillus fumigatus, mut. helvola Yuill. The epithet helvola is a feminine diminutive of Latin helvus (“honey-yellow”). By surface analysis, Latin helvus + -ole + -ic.
Words from the same roots
Latinhelvus all →
helvinehelvite
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.