Etymology

novocaine

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Today it means: The commercial name of procaine, a common painkiller drug. Full definition →

German Kokain ← Latin novellus ← Proto-Italic *nowos
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*nu
  2. Proto-Indo-European*néwos
  3. Proto-Italic*nowos
  4. Latinnovus
  5. Latinnovellus
  6. GermanKokain
  7. English todayNovocaine

From Latin novellus (“new”) + English -caine.

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