英语词汇vitamin的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	vitamin
词源	vitamin. American biochemist Casimir Funk coined the word vitamin (or, rather, vitamine) in 1912, at which time he was credited with the discovery of the existence of vitamins, or- ganic substances necessary for normal health. Funk construct- ed the word from the Latin vita, “life,” and amine, from the Greek ammoniakon, because he believed that an amino acid was present in vitamins. Vitamine was stripped of its e when it was found that amino acids were not involved.
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