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Where does “-morphic” come from?

-morphic (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.

-morphic (English): having a specific shape or form

Definitions

  1. having a specific shape or form

Ancestry of “-morphic”, 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 “-morphic”

  • anthropomorphic
  • polymorphic
  • isomorphic
  • dimorphic
  • geomorphic
  • monomorphic
  • zoomorphic
  • holomorphic
  • homomorphic
  • anthropomorphically
  • trimorphic
  • meromorphic
  • polymorphically
  • heteromorphic
  • idiomorphic
  • zygomorphic
  • hydrogeomorphic
  • theriomorphic
  • ectomorphic
  • actinomorphic
  • holomorphically
  • isomorphically
  • nonisomorphic
  • xeromorphic
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