Etymology

phytoaccumulation

Today it means: The accumulation, by a plant, of substances from its environment Full definition →

English accumulation ← Middle English acumulacyon ← Latin accumulātiō
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰuH-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰuHyéti
  3. Ancient Greekφῠ́ω (phŭ́ō)
  4. Ancient Greekφῠτός (phŭtós)
  5. Ancient Greekφῠτόν (phŭtón)
  6. Englishphyto-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
  8. Proto-Italic*ad
  9. Proto-Italic*ad-
  10. Latinad-
  11. Proto-Indo-European*ḱewh₁-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*ḱuh₁mósder.?
  13. Latincumulus
  14. Latincumulō
  15. Latinaccumulō
  16. Latinaccumulātiō
  17. Middle Frenchaccumulation
  18. Latinaccumulātiō
  19. Middle Englishacumulacyon
  20. Englishaccumulation
  21. English todayphytoaccumulation

From phyto- + accumulation.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.