Etymology

temporin

T1E1M3P3O1R1I1N1

Today it means: Any of a family of peptides isolated originally from the skin secretion of the European red frog, Rana temporaria. Full definition →

Latin tempus
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

temporin · noun1

From Latin temporaria + English -in.

temporin · noun2

  1. Latin · derived fromtempus“temple (of the head)”
  2. English todaytemporin

From Latin tempus (“temple (of the head)”) + -in.

Words from the same roots

Latintempus all →

tempotensetemporaneous

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.