ptomaine=تومائين

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ptomaine=تومائين

 التومين مادة سامة

ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:

ptomaine (n.)

1880, from It. ptomaina, coined by Prof. Francesco Selmi of Bologna, 1878, from Gk. ptoma "corpse," lit. "a falling, fallen thing," from piptein "to fall" (see symptom). Notion is of poison produced in decaying matter. Incorrectly formed; proper Greek would be *ptomatine.