Where does “climatic” come from?
Climatic derives from English climate plus the French suffix -ique, from Latin -icus, from Proto-Indo-European -kos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ḱel-, meaning to lean or incline.
climatic (English): Of, relating to, or influenced by climate
Definitions
- Of, relating to, or influenced by climate
Ancestry of “climatic”, step by step
climatic traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English climate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | climate | An area of the earth's surface between two... |
| 2 | Middle English | climat | — |
| 3 | Old French | climat | — |
| 4 | Latin | clima | slope, inclination; A Roman unit of area... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | κλίμα | a slope, incline, inclination; the supposed slope... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | κλίνω | to bend, slant; to cause to give way, cause to... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱley- | to shelter, cover; to lean, slope, incline |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱel- | to cover; to incline |
via French climatique
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | climatique | climate, climatic |
| 2 | Ancient Greek | κλιματικός | — |
Words derived from “climatic”
- climatically
- paleoclimatic
- bioclimatic
- microclimatic
- agroclimatic
- palaeoclimatic
- hydroclimatic
- geoclimatic
- biogeoclimatic
- ecoclimatic
- macroclimatic
- phytoclimatic
- dendroclimatic
- pedoclimatic
- paleoclimatically
- microclimatically
- astroclimatic
- archaeoclimatic
- climatitzar
- enviroclimatic
- homoclimatic
- mesoclimatic
- morphoclimatic
- nonclimatic