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Where does “-amic” come from?

-amic (English) comes from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine, from Latin imāginem, from Latin im- — in.

-amic (English): amic; Of, relating to, or derived from an amine,...

Definitions

  1. amic; Of, relating to, or derived from an amine,...

Ancestry of “-amic”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
2EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
3Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
4Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
5Spanishimagenimage
6Italianimmagineimage; imago
7Latinimāginem—
8Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
9Latinīn-—
10Latinîn—
11Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
12Proto-Italicenin
13Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “-amic”

  • glutamate
  • glutamic
  • glutamatergic
  • muramic
  • muramyl
  • polyglutamate
  • acetylmuramic
  • monoglutamate
  • pyroglutamic
  • pyroglutamate
  • acetylmuramyl
  • folylpolyglutamate
  • hypoglutamatergic
  • hyperglutamatergic
  • aspartylglutamate
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