Etymology

mineralocorticoid

Today it means: Any of a group of steroid hormones, characterised by their similarity to aldosterone and their influence on salt and water metabolism. Full definition →

English corticoid ← Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos) ← Proto-Hellenic *wéidos
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Englishmineral
  2. Proto-Indo-European*(s)ker-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kert-
  4. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kort-ek-s
  5. Latincortex
  6. Englishcortico-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*weyd-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*wéydos
  9. Proto-Hellenic*wéidos
  10. Ancient Greekεἶδος (eîdos)
  11. Englishcorticoid
  12. English todaymineralocorticoid

From mineral + -o- + corticoid.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.