combining form of AMIDE; used also in the phrases amido compounds, amido derivatives, i.e., those in which one atom of hydrogen is replaced by an atom of the radical Amidogen NH2, as Amido-benzine (= ANILINE), Amido-ethane (= ETHYLAMINE), Amido-methane (= METHYLAMINE), Amido-caproic acid, etc.
1854. Pereira, Mat. Med. (ed. 4), I. 938. Amido-chloride of mercury occurs in commerce in masses or in powder.
1864. Reader, 18 June, 782/1. The fluorescence of two new substances—amidophthalic and amidoterephthalic acid.
1873. Fownes, Chem., 683. Alanine, or amidopropionic acid. Ibid., 760. It is converted into amidobenzene or aniline.
1877. Watts, Fownes’ Chem., II. 446. Benzene group: amido derivalives. Ibid. Only, one nitro-group is obtained in the first instance, so that nitro-amido compounds are obtained.
1881. Thudichum, Ann. Chem. Med., II. viii. On the Albuminous Substances, Amides, Amido-Acids, and Ammonium Salts as Sources of the Urea.
