Etymology

immunostaining

I1M3M3U1N1O1S1T1A1I1N1I1N1G2

Today it means: Any of several staining techniques that are used to detect specific proteins. Full definition →

English staining ← Middle French immun ← Latin immūnis
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*mey-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*moy-nós
  3. Proto-Italic*moinos
  4. Latinmūnus
  5. Proto-Indo-European*né
  6. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  7. Proto-Italic*n̥-
  8. Latinin-
  9. Latinin- -is
  10. Latinimmūnis
  11. Middle Frenchimmun
  12. Englishimmune
  13. Englishimmuno-
  14. Englishstaining
  15. English todayimmunostaining

From immuno- + staining.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.