English

amitosis

From a- + mitosis.

Formed from a- + mitosis

Proto-Indo-European *uds- ‘up, out’

Proto-Germanic *uz- ‘out-’

Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- ‘up, out, over’

English a-

Ancient Greek μίτος ‘thread’

German Mitose

Today it means

noun cell division by cleavage of the nucleus without the formation of condensed chromosomes

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / amitosis