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Where does “abiogenic” come from?

abiogenic (English) comes from English biogenic, from English genic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine — in.

abiogenic (English): Not produced or derived by means of living...

Definitions

  1. Not produced or derived by means of living...

Ancestry of “abiogenic”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishbiogenicproduced by living organisms, or by a biological...
2Englishgenicof, relating to, produced by, or being a gene
3English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
4EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
5Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
6Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
7Spanishimagenimage
8Italianimmagineimage; imago
9Latinimāginem—
10Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
11Latinīn-—
12Latinîn—
13Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
14Proto-Italicenin
15Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “abiogenic”

  • abiogenically
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