Etymology

minisatellite

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Today it means: A short series of bases that reoccurs many times in a genome Full definition →

English satellite ← Middle French satellite ← Latin satellitem
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The story

  1. LatinMinius
  2. Latinminium
  3. Italianminio
  4. Italianminiare
  5. Italianminiatura
  6. Englishminiature
  7. Englishmini-
  8. Latinsatellitem
  9. Middle Frenchsatellite
  10. Englishsatellite
  11. English todayminisatellite

From mini- + satellite.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.