The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπρωτόγονος“first-created”
- French · derived fromprotogine
- English todayprotogine
From French protogine, coined in 1806 on the basis of Ancient Greek πρωτόγονος (prōtógonos, “first-created”), with an added suffix -ine, which the author used for certain minerals.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekπρωτόγονος all →
protogenos
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.