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Where does “Byronic” come from?

Byronic comes from English Byron plus the French suffix -ique, from Latin -icus, derived from Proto-Indo-European -kos, an adjectival suffix.

Byronic (English): Of or pertaining to British Romantic poet George...

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to British Romantic poet George...

Ancestry of “Byronic”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishByron—
2Old Englishbyrumat the byre or cattleshed

Words derived from “Byronic”

  • Byronically
Every word from Old English byrum →