Etymology

pyrocatechol

P3Y4R1O1C3A1T1E1C3H4O1L1

Today it means: A dihydric phenol, benzene-1,2-diol, present in some tars. Full definition →

English catechol ← Latin pyr ← Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr)
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*péh₂wr̥
  2. Proto-Hellenic*pāwər
  3. Ancient Greekπῦρ (pûr)
  4. Latinpyr
  5. Englishpyro-
  6. Englishcatechol
  7. English todaypyrocatechol

From pyro- + catechol.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.