Etymology

neurotoxicity

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Today it means: The state or property of being neurotoxic. Full definition →

English toxicity ← French toxique ← Latin toxicu
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)neh₁-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*snéh₁wr̥
  3. Ancient Greekνεῦρον (neûron)
  4. Ancient Greekνευρο- (neuro-)
  5. Englishneuro-
  6. Ancient Greekτοξῐκός (toxĭkós)
  7. Ancient Greekτοξικόν (toxikón)
  8. Latintoxicum
  9. Latintoxicu
  10. Frenchtoxique
  11. Englishtoxic
  12. Englishtoxicity
  13. English todayneurotoxicity

From neuro- + toxicity.

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