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Where does “animistic” come from?

Animistic comes from French -ique, from Latin -icus, from Proto-Indo-European -kos, an adjectival suffix of unknown ultimate origin.

animistic (English): Of or pertaining to animism

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to animism

Ancestry of “animistic”, 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 “animistic”

  • animistically
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