Noun: penicillin
| Singular | penicillin |
| Plural | penicillins |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like penicillin
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *pes-
3. Proto-Indo-European *pes-ni-s
4. Proto-Italic *peznis
5. Latin pēnis
6. Proto-Indo-European *-lós
7. Proto-Indo-European *-elós
8. Proto-Italic *-elos
9. Proto-Italic *-kelos
10. Latin -culus
11. Latin pēniculus
12. ▲
13. Proto-Italic *-elos
14. Latin -lus
15. Latin -illum
16. Latin pēnicillum
17. Translingual -ium
18. Translingual Penicillium
19. Proto-Indo-European *-nós
20. Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
21. Proto-Italic *-īnos
22. Latin -īnusder.
23. Old French -inbor.
24. Middle English -in
25. English -ineclip.
26. English -in
27. English penicillin
28. From translingual Penicillium + -in. Coined by Alexander Fleming after Penicillium notatum (now Penicillium chrysogenum), a fungus from which penicillin is obtained.
Verbs referencing "penicillin"
Finnish Nouns
penisilliini, Catalan Nouns
penicil·lina.