Etymograph

English

heteronucleophile

From hetero- + nucleophile.

Formed from hetero- + nucleophile

Proto-Indo-European *sem- ‘one, whole’

Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros

Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros

Ancient Greek ἕτερος ‘other, another, different’

English hetero-

Today it means

noun Any heterocyclic nucleophile in which the nucleophilic atom is a heteroatom

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