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Where does “cartographic” come from?

Cartographic comes from French cartographie, derived from French carte meaning map, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European roots expressing writing and marking.

cartographic (English): Of or pertaining to the making of maps

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to the making of maps

Ancestry of “cartographic”, 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 “cartographic”

  • cartographically
  • noncartographic
  • cybercartographic
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →