Etymology

nucleotidic

N1U1C3L1E1O1T1I1D2I1C3

Today it means: Of or pertaining to a nucleotide Full definition →

English nucleotide ← Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- ← Latin nucleu
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The story

  1. Proto-Italic*knuks
  2. Latinnux
  3. Latinnucleu
  4. Englishnucleus
  5. Englishnucleo-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  7. Englishnucleotide
  8. English todaynucleotidic

From nucleotide + -ic.

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