Where does “atrophic” come from?
Atrophic comes from English atrophy, from French atrophie, from Latin atrophia, from Ancient Greek ἀτροφία, the noun form of ἄτροφος meaning not nourished, derived from the prefix ἀ- and τρέφω meaning to nourish.
atrophic (English): Of, pertaining to, or arising from atrophy
Definitions
- Of, pertaining to, or arising from atrophy
Ancestry of “atrophic”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | -ic | Used to form adjectives from nouns with the... |
| 2 | English | image | An optical or other representation of a real... |
| 3 | French | image | picture, image; frame; first-person singular... |
| 4 | Portuguese | imagem | image; picture; figure; image; image; face |
| 5 | Spanish | imagen | image |
| 6 | Italian | immagine | image; imago |
| 7 | Latin | imāginem | — |
| 8 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 9 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 10 | Latin | în | — |
| 11 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
Words derived from “atrophic”