Etymology

polysiloxane

P3O1L1Y4S1I1L1O1X8A1N1E1

Today it means: Any of many polymers having a siloxane repeat unit Full definition →

English siloxane ← Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s) ← Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pleh₁-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*polh₁ús
  3. Ancient Greekπολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)
  4. Englishpoly-
  5. Englishsiloxane
  6. English todaypolysiloxane

From poly- + siloxane.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.