"protein" in seven languages
Meaningprotein
Spanish
proteína
/pɾoteˈina/
fem.learned
French
protéine
/pʁɔtein/
fem.learned
Italian
proteina
/proteˈina/
fem.learned
Portuguese
proteína
/pɾoteˈinɐ/
fem.learned
Romanian
proteină
/proteˈinə/
fem.borrowed · French protéine
Catalan
proteïna
/pɾutəˈinə/
fem.learned
English
protein
/ˈpɹoʊtin/
from Latin/French · modern scientific coinage from Greek prōteios
English → ItalianproteinproteinaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The ancestor
Greek prōteîos‘of the first rank, primary’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A 19th-century scientific coinage: chemists named the substance 'of first importance', from Greek prôtos 'first'. Note the stress: Spanish and Italian stress the i, English the first syllable.
English relatives: protagonist, prototype, proton
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In a sentence
- esLos huevos son ricos en proteínas.
- frLes œufs sont riches en protéines.
- itLe uova sono ricche di proteine.
- ptOs ovos são ricos em proteína.
- roOuăle sunt bogate în proteine.
- caEls ous són rics en proteïnes.
- enEggs are rich in protein.