Etymology

sulpholipid

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English lipid ← French lipide ← Ancient Greek λῐ́πος (lĭ́pos)
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The story

  1. Englishsulphur
  2. Englishsulpho-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*leyp-
  4. Proto-Hellenic*lípos
  5. Ancient Greekλῐ́πος (lĭ́pos)
  6. Frenchlipide
  7. Englishlipid
  8. English todaysulpholipid

From sulpho- + lipid.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.