English
heptasaccharide
From hepta- + saccharide.
A compound of hepta- + saccharo- + -ide + saccharide
Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ ‘gravel’
Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH
Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH
Sanskrit शर्क॑रा
Pali sakkharā ‘gravel’
Ancient Greek σάκχαρ ‘sugar’
Latin saccharon ‘a syrupy liquid that exudes from bamboo, a kind of sugar’
Latin saccharum ‘sugar’
English saccharo-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ ‘gravel’
Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH
Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH
Sanskrit शर्क॑रा
Pali sakkharā ‘gravel’
Ancient Greek σάκχαρ ‘sugar’
Latin saccharon ‘a syrupy liquid that exudes from bamboo, a kind of sugar’
Latin saccharum ‘sugar’
English saccharo-
English saccharide
Today it means
noun Any oligosaccharide having seven sugar residues
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / heptasaccharide