Etymograph

English

aptamer

Aptamer comes from Latin aptus ‘apt, proper’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- ‘to join, fit (in)’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂ep-‘to join, fit (in)’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂ptósreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*aptosreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaptus‘apt, proper’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2005aptamer

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂ep-‘to join, fit (in)’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₂ptósreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*aptosreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaptus‘apt, proper’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2005aptamer

Earliest quotation: 2005, Sensor Systems for Biological Agent Attacks: “Aptamers are oligomers of RNA or DNA that spontaneously…”

Formed from -mer

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- ‘to join, fit (in)’

apex, ape, aven, 21 more

through Latin aptus ‘apt, proper’

attitude, apt, aptitude, attitudinal, 10 more

Today it means

noun Any subsequence of nucleic acid, selected from a large random sequence-pool, used to bind to a specific target molecule.

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Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- / aptamer

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