Where does “acclimation” come from?
Acclimation comes from French acclimation, from Latin -io (a noun suffix), from French climat, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a prefix), from Latin ad-, from Latin ad (to), and from Ancient Greek κλίνω (to lean or incline).
acclimation (English): The process of becoming, or the state of being,...
Definitions
- The process of becoming, or the state of being,...
Ancestry of “acclimation”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | acclimate | To habituate to a climate not native; to... |
| 2 | French | acclimater | to acclimatize |
| 3 | French | climat | climate |
| 4 | Middle French | climat | — |
| 5 | Old French | climat | — |
| 6 | Latin | clima | slope, inclination; A Roman unit of area... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | κλίμα | a slope, incline, inclination; the supposed slope... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | κλίνω | to bend, slant; to cause to give way, cause to... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱley- | to shelter, cover; to lean, slope, incline |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱel- | to cover; to incline |