English

hexarepeat

From hexa- + repeat.

Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs ‘six’

Proto-Hellenic *hwéks ‘six’

Ancient Greek ἕξ ‘six’

English hexa-

Proto-Indo-European *péth₂eti ‘to fly’

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Latin repetō ‘to attack again’

Old French repeter ‘to say multiple times’

Middle French repeter ‘to repeat’

Middle English repeten ‘to repeat’

Today it means

noun A pattern of six repeats (in a nucleic acid or protein (especially a prion))

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

Etymograph / hexarepeat