English

glimepiride

From gli- (“antihyperglycemic”) + me(thyl) + pyr(role) + -ide.

Formed from gli- ‘antihyperglycemic’ + methyl + pyrrole + -ide

Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη ‘wood’

German Methyl

Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥ ‘fire’

Proto-Hellenic *pāwər

Ancient Greek πῦρ ‘a funerary fire’

Ancient Greek πῠρρός ‘flame-coloured, yellowish-red’

German Pyrrol

Today it means

noun A sulfonylurea antidiabetic drug.

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

Etymograph / glimepiride