Etymology of the English word necrotizing
the English word
necrotizingderived from the English word
necrotizeusing the English suffix
-izederived from the Old French suffix
-iserderived from the Latin suffix
-izarederived from the Greek suffix
-izein, -ίζειν
derived from the English word
necroticderived from the Greek word
nekrounderived from the Greek word
nekros, νεκρός (corpse; dead (literally or figuratively; also as noun))
derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*nek-Usage
Word found in Modern English