Where does “climate” come from?
Climate descends from Middle English climat, Old French climat, and Latin clima, from Ancient Greek κλίμα, ultimately deriving from the root κλίνω meaning to incline or lean, tracing back through Proto-Indo-European ḱley- to ḱel-.
climate (English): An area of the earth's surface between two...
Definitions
- An area of the earth's surface between two...
Ancestry of “climate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | climat | — |
| 2 | Old French | climat | — |
| 3 | Latin | clima | slope, inclination; A Roman unit of area... |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | κλίμα | a slope, incline, inclination; the supposed slope... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | κλίνω | to bend, slant; to cause to give way, cause to... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱley- | to shelter, cover; to lean, slope, incline |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱel- | to cover; to incline |
Words derived from “climate”
- climatic
- microclimate
- climatology
- climatological
- climatically
- paleoclimate
- climatal
- paleoclimatic
- bioclimatic
- microclimatic
- climatologist
- agroclimatic
- palaeoclimatic
- paleoclimatology
- climatologic
- hydroclimatic
- macroclimate
- climatologically
- bioclimate
- palaeoclimatology
- geoclimatic
- biogeoclimatic
- ecoclimatic
- paleoclimatologist