Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗prefix
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventorysolvent, dissolving, dispersion; freeze-drying
Late 19th century, in terms like lyophilization (1894). From Ancient Greek λύω (lúō, “to loosen, to dissolve”), by analogy with -lysis, of same origin; from Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (English loose).
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