The story
- Proto-Indo-European*sem-
- Proto-Indo-European*sḿ̥teros
- Proto-Hellenic*hə́teros
- Ancient Greekἕτερος (héteros)
- Englishhetero-
- Englishmultimeric
- English todayheteromultimeric
From hetero- + multimeric.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
heteromultimeric
Today it means: Describing a protein containing two or more different polypeptide chains Full definition →
English multimeric ← Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros) ← Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros