Etymology

prodigiosin

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Today it means: A red pigment produced by certain bacteria. Full definition →

German Prodigiosin ← Latin prodigiosus
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromprodigiosus
  2. German · borrowed fromProdigiosin
  3. English todayprodigiosin

From German Prodigiosin, from Latin prodigiosus + -in.

Words from the same roots

Latinprodigiosus all →

prodigious

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.