suprarenal
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.22 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to the adrenal glands (suprarenal glands), their secretions, or the function derived therefrom.
noun
A suprarenal capsule.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Proto-Italic *superos Proto-Italic *superād Old Latin suprād Latin suprā Latin supra-lbor. English supra- Latin rēn Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin rēnālislbor. English renal English suprarenal From supra- + renal.
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.