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The adjective “immune” and its derivatives

Željana Klječanin Franić orcid.org/0000-0001-9653-4645 ; Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb

Abstract

In biomedical and popular scientific texts about the importance of the mechanisms used by the body as protection from foreign substances, we come across two variants of the term “immunity” in the Croatian language (imunost and imunitet) Both nouns are derived from the adjective “immune” whose roots are found in the adjectuves “immune” and “immunological” (imunosni, imunološki). The use of all these three adjectives as synonyms leads us to the conclusion that there is no difference in their meaning. This study analyses derivatives from the adjective “imun” and answers the question whether the nouns “imunost” and “imunitet” and the adjectives “imun” and “imunitet” are synonyms, or if the different suffixes or prefixes indicate differences in meaning. We looked for examples in veterinary immunology textbooks.

Keywords

immunity; creation of words; veterinary immunology; terminology

Hrčak ID:

245243

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/245243

Publication date:

5.10.2020.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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