Etymology

homopolyuridine

H4O1M3O1P3O1L1Y4U1R1I1D2I1N1E1

Today it means: A homopolymer composed of uridine subunits Full definition →

English polyuridine ← Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós) ← Proto-Hellenic *homós
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*sem-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*somHós
  3. Proto-Hellenic*homós
  4. Ancient Greekὁμός (homós)
  5. Englishhomo-
  6. Englishpolyuridine
  7. English todayhomopolyuridine

From homo- + polyuridine.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.