Etymology

superacid

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Today it means: Any substance having a very high acidity; typically a solution of a strong Lewis acid in a Brønsted acid. Full definition →

English acid ← French acide ← Latin acidu
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Italic*super
  4. Latinsuper
  5. Latinsuper-
  6. Englishsuper-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*h₂eḱ-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*h₂eḱéh₁yeti
  9. Proto-Italic*akēō
  10. Latinaceō
  11. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  12. Latinacidu
  13. Frenchacide
  14. Englishacid
  15. English todaysuperacid

From super- + acid.

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