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pregnane

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.27 in modern English

Syllables
preg-nane
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The parent hydrocarbon for a range of steroids including the progesterones

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin praegnāns Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānusder. English -ane English pregnane From Latin praegnans + -ane, from praegnās, from prae- (“before”) + gnā- (the root of *gnāscor, an archaic form of nāscor (“be born”)).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

pregnanes (plural)

Derived Forms

domoprednate norpregnane prednisone pregnanediol pregnanetriol

Questions

What does pregnane mean?
The parent hydrocarbon for a range of steroids including the progesterones
Where does pregnane come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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