Etymology

nonfluorescence

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Today it means: The absence of an (expected) fluorescence Full definition →

English fluorescence ← Middle English sparston ← Old English spærstān
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Germanic*ne
  3. Proto-Indo-European*ís?
  4. Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
  5. Proto-Germanic*ainaz
  6. Proto-Germanic*nainaz
  7. Proto-West Germanic*nain
  8. Old Englishnān
  9. Middle Englishnon
  10. Old Englishnān
  11. Old Englishnān-
  12. Middle Englishnon-
  13. Englishnon-
  14. Proto-Indo-European*bʰel-
  15. Proto-Indo-European*bʰlewH-
  16. Proto-Indo-European*bʰluH-yé-ti?
  17. Latinfluō
  18. Latinfluor
  19. Englishfluor
  20. Englishfluorite
  21. Middle Low Germanspar
  22. Old Englishspærstān
  23. Middle Englishsparston
  24. Englishsparstonebf.
  25. Englishspar
  26. Englishfluorspar
  27. Englishfluorescence
  28. English todaynonfluorescence

From non- + fluorescence.

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