English

disaccharide

Disaccharide comes from English saccharide.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history not traced here.

Lineage

Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ ‘gravel’

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Ancient Greek σάκχαρ ‘sugar’

Latin saccharon ‘a syrupy liquid that exudes from bamboo, a…’

Latin saccharum ‘sugar’

English saccharo-

Every English word from English saccharide

noun Any sugar, such as sucrose, maltose and lactose, consisting of two monosaccharides combined together.

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