Where does “apheliotropically” come from?
apheliotropically (English) comes from English apheliotropic, from English heliotropic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine — in.
apheliotropically (English): In an apheliotropic way; away from the sun
Definitions
- In an apheliotropic way; away from the sun
Ancestry of “apheliotropically”, step by step
apheliotropically traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English apheliotropic
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | apheliotropic | Turning away from the sun; said of leaves, etc |
| 2 | English | heliotropic | exhibiting heliotropism |
| 3 | English | -ic | Used to form adjectives from nouns with the... |
| 4 | English | image | An optical or other representation of a real... |
| 5 | French | image | picture, image; frame; first-person singular... |
| 6 | Portuguese | imagem | image; picture; figure; image; image; face |
| 7 | Spanish | imagen | image |
| 8 | Italian | immagine | image; imago |
| 9 | Latin | imāginem | — |
| 10 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 11 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 12 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 13 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |