Etymology Explorer › English

Where does “cellulosic” come from?

Cellulosic comes from English cellulose, from French cellulose, ultimately from Latin -icus and Proto-Indo-European -kos, a suffix forming adjectives.

cellulosic (English): Of, pertaining to, or derived from cellulose; A...

Definitions

  1. Of, pertaining to, or derived from cellulose; A...

Ancestry of “cellulosic”, 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 “cellulosic”

  • noncellulosic
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →