English

anticaking agent

From anticaking + agent.

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti ‘to be driving’

Proto-Italic *agō ‘to drive’

Latin agō ‘to act’

Latin agēns ‘doing’

English agent

Today it means

noun Any substance added to another product to prevent it from forming lumps.

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

Etymograph / anticaking agent