The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromστέαρ“fat”
- French · derived fromstéarine
- English todaystearin
From French stéarine, from Ancient Greek στέαρ (stéar, “fat”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekστέαρ all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.