stercobilin
English
noun
Definitions
- (biochemistry) A tetrapyrrolic bile pigment, one of the end products of heme catabolism, responsible for the brown colour of human faeces
Etymology
Derived from Latin stercus (dung, manure, shit, excrement, excrements), bīlis (bile, gall).
Origin
Latin
bīlis
Gloss
bile, gall
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bile English
- bili- English
- stercolith English
- stercoroma English
- stercovorous English
- biliaris Latin
- bīlis Latin
- sterceia Latin
- stercoralis Latin
- stercoranista Latin
- stercorarius Latin
- sterculinum Latin
- stercus Latin
- sterquilinium Latin
- Bilirubin German
- Biliverdin German
- bile Italian
- sterco Italian
- stercoraceo Italian
- verde Italian
- bilis Spanish, Castilian
- -ωμα Ancient Greek
- *(s)terǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)terḱ-, *(s)terḱ-o- Proto-Indo-European
- bili- Irish
- sterko Esperanto
- bilis Catalan, Valencian
- șterc Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- esterco Old Portuguese