Etymograph

English

stereostructure

From stereo- + structure.

Formed from stereo- + structure

Proto-Indo-European *ster- ‘barren, infertile’

Ancient Greek στερεός ‘firm, solid’

English stereo-

Proto-Indo-European *strew- ‘to strew, spread out’

Proto-Italic *strowō

Latin struō ‘to pile up; to build’

Latin structūra ‘a fitting together, building’

Middle French structure

English structure

Today it means

noun stereochemical structure

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “stereostructure”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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