The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπῦρ“fire”
- New Latin · derived fromacidum pyruvicum
- English todaypyruvic acid
From New Latin acidum pyruvicum, from Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) + ūva (“grape”) + -icum (neuter singular of -icus), from its being produced by the dry distillation of racemic acid, originally derived from grapes. By surface analysis, pyr(e) + Latin uv(a) + -ic.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekπῦρ all →
pyropyrotechnicpyroclasticpyropedipyreeupyrionpyrargyritepyro-pyroballogypyrophorepyrophorus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.