The story
- Latin · derived frompinus“pine”
- English todaypinic acid
From Latin pinus (“pine”).
Words from the same roots
Latinpinus all →
pinepinenepinanepinophyte
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
pinic acid
Today it means: A dicarboxylic acid and recognized as an oxidation product of α-pinene, a common terpene found in pine resin. Full definition →
Latin pinus