Etymology

supercoil

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Today it means: A coil of the DNA helix upon itself, such as a figure eight. Full definition →

English coil ← Latin super- ← Proto-Italic *super
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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. Englishcoil
  8. English todaysupercoil

From super- + coil.

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