Etymograph

English

fluorosugar

From fluoro- + sugar.

Formed from fluoro- + sugar

Latin fluō ‘to flow, stream, pour’

Latin fluor ‘flow’

English fluoro-

Old French çucre ‘sugar’

Middle English sugre ‘sugar’

English sugar

Today it means

noun Any compound in which one or more hydroxyl groups of a sugar have been replaced by atoms of fluorine

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

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