English
endocrine
Endocrine comes from French endocrine, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *krey- ‘to sift, separate, divide’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*krey-‘to sift, separate, divide’root as named · steps between not traced
- Frenchc. 1600–presentendocrine
- Englishtodayendocrine
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*krey-‘to sift, separate, divide’root as named · steps between not traced
- Frenchc. 1600–presentendocrine
- Englishtodayendocrine
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *krey- ‘to sift, separate, divide’
certain, secretary, secret, crime, criminal, crisis, discrimination, discretion, critic, critique, discrete, discreet, riddle, discern, criterion, discriminate, hypocrite, excrement, excretion, rime, incriminate, excrete, ridder, certitude, incrimination, criterium, recrimination, 47 more
Today it means
adj Producing internal secretions that are transported around the body by the bloodstream.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *krey- / endocrine