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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

  1. Of, pertaining to, or arising from atrophy

Ancestry of “atrophic”, 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 “atrophic”

  • lipoatrophic
  • atrophically
  • fibroatrophic
  • scleroatrophic
  • cerebroatrophic
  • antiatrophic
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