Word origin
[1900–05; ‹ NL (
Acacia)
farnes(
iana) Farnese acacia (named after Cardinal O.
Farnese, 17th-century Italian) +
-ol1]This word is first recorded in the period 1900–05. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Young Turk, decompression, elder statesman, geopolitics, hormone-ol is a suffix used in the names of chemical derivatives, representing “alcohol” (glycerol; naphthol; phenol), or sometimes “phenol” or less definitely assignable phenol derivatives (resorcinol)